rente
Americannoun
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revenue or income, or the instrument evidencing a right to such periodic receipts.
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Also called rentes sur l'état. rentes. perpetual bonds issued by the French government.
noun
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annual income from capital investment; annuity
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government securities of certain countries, esp France
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the interest on such securities
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"And from her head ofte rente her snarled heare."
From The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation — Volume 06 Madiera, the Canaries, Ancient Asia, Africa, etc. by Hakluyt, Richard
Down to the present day the great majority of them continue to pay their rente constituee as did their fathers before them.
From The Seigneurs of Old Canada : A Chronicle of New World Feudalism by Munro, William Bennett
Florent behihte hire good ynowh Of lond, of rente, of park, of plowh, Bot al that compteth sche at noght.
From Confessio Amantis, or, Tales of the Seven Deadly Sins by Macaulay, G. C. (George Campbell)
“But twenty-five hundred livres de rente are not a husband, Valerie.”
From Valerie by Marryat, Frederick
The yerely rente of that grounde is bestowed vpon sacrifice.
From The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation — Volume 06 Madiera, the Canaries, Ancient Asia, Africa, etc. by Hakluyt, Richard
It seems, however, that the French rentes maintain their quotation of seventy-five francs.
From Paris War Days Diary of an American by Barnard, Charles Inman
The habitants then became tenants paying as rent the old cens et rentes.
From A Canadian Manor and Its Seigneurs The Story of a Hundred Years, 1761-1861 by Wrong, George McKinnon
Their annual payment of cens et rentes rarely amounted to more than a very few dollars.
From A Canadian Manor and Its Seigneurs The Story of a Hundred Years, 1761-1861 by Wrong, George McKinnon
At any rate, the habitant took his land subject to yearly payments known as the cens et rentes.
From Crusaders of New France A Chronicle of the Fleur-de-Lis in the Wilderness Chronicles of America, Volume 4 by Munro, William Bennett
It was in this way that as St. Martin's day, November 11th, approached the people were reminded of the falling due of the cens et rentes.
From A Canadian Manor and Its Seigneurs The Story of a Hundred Years, 1761-1861 by Wrong, George McKinnon
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