collect. sb. [f. as prec. + -RY.] Citizens or townsmen in the mass; a citizenry, a body of citizens.
1819. W. Taylor, in Month. Mag., XLVIII. 307. He … sided with the magistracy, not with the citizenry.
1823. Lamb, Elia, Decay Beggars. Salutary checks and pauses to the high and rushing tide of greasy citizenry.
1858. Carlyle, Fredk. Gt. (1865), V. XIII. vi. 72. A heart sincere, and intent only on aiming at the welfare of a Citizenry so loveworthy.
