Synonym: aristocracy. Similar words: intransigent, intransigence, entry, agent, gently, cogent, urgent, gentle. Meaning: ['dʒentrɪ] n. the most powerful members of a society.
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61 The hospitality of the religious houses had become the responsibility of the gentry.
62 Since land allotments would be carved out of land that belonged to the gentry, serfs would have to pay for them.
63 They said that without his presence, there will be a freer flow of ideas, especially from Smith and Gentry.
64 Gentry eventually became planning director and assistant to the city manager for special projects, before leaving city employment in 1987.
65 Meet the Gentry, their servants, guests, estate workers and the local soldiery.
66 Since the province was a hotbed of gentry resistance to the emancipation, confrontation looked a real possibility.
67 James had no better luck in securing the acquiescence of the Anglican gentry.
68 In this case there was widespread support and sympathy from the overtaxed gentry and clergy.
69 On this question all social grades had taken the same line - the need to seize local gentry estates.
70 Nor did he have to worry for long about hostility on the part of the gentry.
71 In old society, the gentry lived in luxury.
72 The light-fingered gentry frequented these shops.
73 The white, male landed gentry could vote.
74 She was beaten by the Polish and Lithuanian gentry.
75 They have discredited the local tyrants and evil gentry.
76 Orphaned and of humble origins, Jackson cut a very different figure in the American political landscape from the pedigreed Virginia and New England gentry who surrounded him.
77 I can not believe that the gentry of England will be made mere drumheads to be sounded upon by a prime minister to give forth unmeaning and empty sounds, and to have no articulate voice of their own.
78 In some ways the gentry group was the motive power behind the establishment of Hua County.
79 The grammar schools were assuredly not intended for the gentry alone.
80 He discovered something new, he began to see another side of life in a gentry household.
81 Yes. You're the wife of the landed gentry, And I'm a cater waiter at a seder. Dan, wait.
82 An asura will be asked what college they attended (Synergetics, Dynamics or Statics), while a human will be asked to define their social background (Gentry, Commoner, or Streets).
83 The gentry on the grandstand laughed too, though in a much more refined way, of course.
84 The enlightened gentry are individual landlords and rich peasants with democratic leanings.
85 Here you can see the rounded saddle-back style houses typical of regional working and farming classes and, in the background, the pointed, swallow tail roofs that were once the reserve of the gentry.
86 His father was a wealth sugar planter and his mother came from the Cuban landed gentry.
87 Even in southern states, where the landed gentry still held sway,[http://sentencedict.com/gentry.html] the growth of urban middle and working classes led to the demand for the vote free of property qualifications.
88 The compradors, gentry merchants were two newly rising classes of the modern commercial society.
89 The point about the upper classes is that when they were not off at war, encouraging their peasants to slaughter their second cousin's peasants, they were landed gentry: farmers.
90 "Homomorphic encryption gives you a way out of the dilemma," Gentry says.
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