I answered as gently as I could that gentrice did not consist in daintiness of eating and drinking or boisterous display, and that in my opinion nothing gave so fine a flavour of gentility as a tincture of letters; […]
1939 — Harold W. Thompson, Body, Boots, & Britches: Folktales, Ballads, and Speech from Country New York, Syracuse University Press (1979), →ISBN, page 326:
The tragedy, however, as Burke and other British statesmen were to declare, had already been prepared indirectly by Gentlemen Johnny Burgoyne, whose claims to gentrice were as dubious as his talents as a general.
1982 — J. C. Furnas, Fanny Kemble: Leading Lady of the Nineteenth-Century Stage, Dial Press (1982), →ISBN, page 7:
In any case, whether or not Roger partook of genuine gentrice, he spent much of his professional life playing the role of the stage urban gentleman who was[sic] focus of most of the comedy and much of the tragedy of the theater of the eighteenth century.
"He may, indeed," drolled the minx, "one can never tell. But he has never said so. He is perhaps afraid, being born without the self-conceit of some people--archers of the guard, fledgling captains,and such-like gentrice."
1902 — John Buchan, The Watcher by the Threshold, George H. Doran Company (1918), page 206:
Others would threep she was gentrice, come of a persecuting family in the west, that had been ruined in the Revolution wars.
'Flype a Scott and you find a wee man thumbing his nose at a Kerr. But he pointed out, all power to him, that the lot of ye were no more than playing into the hands of anyone that wanted real power for the asking next to the throne, and no awkward questions from the gentrice. […]
