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Definition of tenantry in English: tenantrynoun ˈtɛnəntriˈtɛnəntri 1treated as singular or plural The tenants of an estate. he was addressed by his tenantry as ‘squire’ Example sentencesExamples - The first of these stallions was kept for the benefit of the tenantry, who were granted its use free of charge.
- The duke's wealth was squeezed from rents and extracted from a starving tenantry.
- There were precedents in most agrarian societies for wage labor and tenantry.
- Some areas of land and estates became more highly colonised by tenantry than others.
- The landlords have never been castigated for ousting their tenantry.
- He transplanted much of his tenantry to found a dairy farm in 1842, only to return home, ruined, in the following year.
- He could have made a profit in such an economy, as opposed to looking for a rent increase of 70 per cent from the long suffering tenantry.
- He raised a fine regiment of foot soldiers from his hardy Cornish tenantry.
- Most of the tenantry chose to pay the rent rather than face being served with ejectment writs.
- The onerous task of distributing seed potatoes to the tenantry has just been completed.
- They actively discouraged emigration, fearing the loss of their workforce and tenantry.
- At the time of the famine, he made valiant efforts to stop his tenantry starving.
- This transferred more holdings to the tenantry than any previous Land Act had done.
2mass noun Tenancy. tenantry became almost a form of indentured servitude Example sentencesExamples - The book is really about land tenure and tenantry.
Definition of tenantry in US English: tenantrynounˈtenəntrēˈtɛnəntri 1treated as singular or plural The tenants of an estate. he was addressed by his tenantry as “squire” Example sentencesExamples - He could have made a profit in such an economy, as opposed to looking for a rent increase of 70 per cent from the long suffering tenantry.
- They actively discouraged emigration, fearing the loss of their workforce and tenantry.
- At the time of the famine, he made valiant efforts to stop his tenantry starving.
- The landlords have never been castigated for ousting their tenantry.
- This transferred more holdings to the tenantry than any previous Land Act had done.
- The onerous task of distributing seed potatoes to the tenantry has just been completed.
- Most of the tenantry chose to pay the rent rather than face being served with ejectment writs.
- The first of these stallions was kept for the benefit of the tenantry, who were granted its use free of charge.
- He raised a fine regiment of foot soldiers from his hardy Cornish tenantry.
- The duke's wealth was squeezed from rents and extracted from a starving tenantry.
- Some areas of land and estates became more highly colonised by tenantry than others.
- He transplanted much of his tenantry to found a dairy farm in 1842, only to return home, ruined, in the following year.
- There were precedents in most agrarian societies for wage labor and tenantry.
2Tenancy. tenantry became almost a form of indentured servitude Example sentencesExamples - The book is really about land tenure and tenantry.
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