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Etymology

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tenant +‎ -ism

Noun

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tenantism (uncountable)

  1. The status of a tenant.
    • 1866, Gilbert Haven, The Pilgrim's Wallet, page 8:
      Then I saw how a spot no larger than this could be crowded with millions of souls, and yet be apparently uninhabited. Romanism increases the degradation of tenantism, and rum completes it.