Gĕn’try, n.

n. [For gentlery, from gentle, q. v.]

1. Birth; condition; rank by birth. [Obs.] “Gentry, title, wisdom.” Shak.
2. People of education and good breeding; in England, in a restricted sense, the class of people between the nobility and the vulgar.
3. Courtesy; civility; complaisance. [Obs.]

To show us so much gentry and good will. Shak.