noun
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tenants collectively, esp those with the same landlord
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the status or condition of being a tenant
Etymology
Origin of tenantry
Example Sentences
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The system involved the absentee and irresponsible landlord, the rack-renting agent, and a tenantry driven onto smaller and smaller patches of land, until whole families existed on one or even half an acre of soil.
From Time Magazine Archive
In Wentworth village pubs the local tenantry shook their heads.
From Time Magazine Archive
Furthermore, he is noted for the keen and intelligent interest he takes in his tenantry in all parts of the country.
From Time Magazine Archive
His only steadfast affection is for Chevron, its venerable house, its loyal tenantry, even its exhausting duties.
From Time Magazine Archive
He armed his tenantry, surrounded his seat of Johnson Hall with a stockade, and garrisoned it with a party of soldiers, which Sir Jeffrey Amherst had ordered thither for his protection.
From The Conspiracy of Pontiac and the Indian War after the Conquest of Canada by Parkman, Francis
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