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ˈlandˌholder
A holder, proprietor, or occupier of land; in mod. use sometimes (opposed to land-owner), a tenant holding land from a proprietor.
1414Rolls Parlt. IV. 58 They have cleymed..the Kynges trew lieges, that ben his fre tenentz annexed to his Coroune, as for her bonde bore men, and her bonde lond holderes. 1662Dugdale Imbanking 51 The Land-holders in the said Marsh. 1691Locke Consid. Lower. Interest (1692) 88 Here is one fourth part of his yearly Income goes immediately out of the Landlords and Landholders Pocket. 1741P. Tailfer (title) A..Narrative of the Colony of Georgia in America..By Pat. Tailfer, M.D...and others, Land-holders in Georgia. 1800Asiat. Ann. Reg., Chron. 28/1 The great body of the land-holders appear fully impressed with a sense of the superior comforts they enjoy. 1874Green Short Hist. i. §1. 3 In the very earliest glimpse we get of the German race we see them a race of land-holders and land-tillers. 1880McCarthy in 19th Cent. Aug. 310 A combination of all the great interests concerned, the landowner as well as the landholder; the peer as well as the peasant.
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1876Digby Real. Prop. i. i. §1. 8 The assembly of land⁓holding inhabitants considered as tenants of a lord. |