squiralty

squiralty

English

Noun

squiralty (usually uncountable, plural squiralties)

1. The land-owning gentry; the squirearchy.
   • Sterne

     that such weight and influence be put thereby into the hands of the squiralty of my kingdom

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for squiralty in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)