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单词 penny-rent
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penny-rentn.

Brit. /ˌpɛnɪˈrɛnt/, U.S. /ˈpɛniˈrɛnt/
Forms: see penny n. and rent n.1; also 1600s peenny rent (perhaps transmission error).
Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: penny n., rent n.1
Etymology: < penny n. + rent n.1
Now historical.
Rent paid or received in money; periodic payment in cash; income, revenue. Also: a quit-rent of a penny.
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society > trade and finance > management of money > income, revenue, or profit > [noun]
renta1225
winningsc1380
profita1382
profity1432
revenue1433
fruitc1450
luck?a1475
improvement1478
apports1481
penny-rent1502
importance1505
filthy lucre1526
rentally1534
entrataa1538
a quick return1583
incoming1596
entratec1599
advenue1600
coming in1600
income1601
intrade1604
intrado1609
ingate1621
audit1625
increment1631
indraught1633
velvet1901
society > trade and finance > fees and taxes > hire or rent > rent (land or real property) > [noun] > paid in money
penny-rent1502
white rent1562
album1677
society > trade and finance > fees and taxes > hire or rent > rent (land or real property) > [noun] > paid in money > instead of services
penny-farm1355
quit-rent1420
blanch farm1598
penny-rent1611
canon1643
1502 Will of John Westburn (P.R.O.: PROB. 11/13) f. 169 In Penny-rent.
1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues Denier de seruice, Pennie rent: a quit or chiefe rent: or, the reseruation of a single pennie in lieu of all other rents and seruices (homage excepted).
a1625 J. Fletcher Wit without Money (1639) iii. sig. E1 What Ioynture can he make you, Plutarchs Moralls, Or so much peenny [sic] rent in the small pots [sic].
1655 T. Fuller Church-hist. Brit. vi. 344 The Pensions were but bare Penny-Rent, whilst Abbey-Lands were lowly rated farre beneath their true valuation.
1673 W. Wycherley Gentleman Dancing-master iii. i Though he..has two thousand five hundred seventy-three pounds sterling, twelve shillings and twopence a year penny-rent.
1729 Season. Rem. Trade 24 This drains from thence the Penny~rents of most of the great Estates of that Kingdom [Ireland].
1754 S. Richardson Hist. Sir Charles Grandison 31 Mar.–1 Apr. He proposes a jointure of £1200 a year penny-rents, and 400 guineas a year for her [sc. Miss Mansfield's] private purse.
1803 Times 11 Jan. 4/3 One undivided seventh part of the freehold buildings..producing, on an average for six years past, a net penny rent of 33l. 11s. 4d.
1933 C. Stephenson Borough & Town 101 (note) Reference to this..tribute is found in the consuetudo owed by all burgess..at Colchester..and Hereford;..in the penny rents paid by settlers in the new borough of Norwich [etc.].
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2005; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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