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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His only steadfast affection is for Chevron, its venerable house, its loyal tenantry, even its exhausting duties.
From Time Magazine Archive
In Jenkintown, the Philadelphia suburb near which they live, the Bryans' gracious hospitality is a byword and to both gentry and tenantry alike Mr. Bryan is known as Big Hearted Joe.
From Time Magazine Archive
The builders of Manhattan's newest, completed skyscraper, Cities Service's 67-story Sixty Wall Tower, installed double-deck elevators which seem to satisfy the tenantry.
From Time Magazine Archive
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
The Custumal published among the Statutes speaks of the personal freedom of all Kentish-men, although it has to concern itself specially with the gavelkind tenantry.
From Villainage in England Essays in English Mediaeval History by Vinogradoff, Paul
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