tenent
English edit
Etymology edit
From Latin tenent (“they hold”). Compare tenet.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
tenent (plural tenents)
- (obsolete) A tenet.
- 1638, Democritus Junior [pseudonym; Robert Burton], The Anatomy of Melancholy. […], 5th edition, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Printed [by Robert Young, Miles Flesher, and Leonard Lichfield and William Turner] for Henry Cripps, →OCLC, partition II, section 2, member 6, subsection iv, page 298:
- Beautie alone is a ſoveraigne remedy againſt feare,griefe,and all melancholy fits; a charm,as Peter de la Seine and many other writers affirme,a banquet it ſelfe;he gives inſtance in diſcontented Menelaus that was ſo often freed by Helenas faire face: and hTully, 3 Tusc. cites Epicurus as a chiefe patron of this Tenent.
- 1644, Roger Williams, chapter LXVI, in The Blovdy Tenent, of Perſecution […] [1], →ISBN, page 97:
- I answer, if Queene Elizabeth according to the Answerers Tenent and Conſcience, did well to perſecute according to her conſcience, King Iames did not ill in perſecuting according to his […]
- 1722, William Wollaston, “Sect. V. Truths relating to the Deity. Of his exiſtence, perfection, providence, &c.”, in The Religion of Nature Delineated[2], page 81:
- Ignorant and ſuperſtitious wretches meaſure the actions of letterd and philoſophical men by the tattle of their nurſes or illiterate parents and companions, or by the faſhion of the country : and people of differing religions judge and condemn each other by their own tenents ; when both of them cannot be in the right, and it is well if either of them are.
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tenent
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Noun edit
tenent m (plural tenents)
Synonyms edit
- (Rumantsch Grischun, Sursilvan, Sutsilvan, Surmiran) litinent