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tenent

/ˈtɛnɛnt/

tenent noun: a tenet.

Noun

tenent (plural tenents)

  1. (obsolete) A tenet.
    • 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...1638, Democritus Junior [pseudonym; Robert Burton], The Anatomy of Melancholy. […], 5th edition, Oxford, Oxfordshire: […] [Robert Young, Miles Flesher, and Leonard Lichfield and William Turner] for...
    • 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[…]1644, Roger Williams, chapter LXVI, in The Blovdy Tenent, of Perſecution […] , →ISBN, page 97

Forms of tenent

pluraltenents

Origin of tenent

From Latin tenent (“they hold”). Compare tenet.

Questions about tenent

What does tenent mean?
Tenent means a tenet.
What part of speech is tenent?
Tenent is a noun.
How do you pronounce tenent?
Tenent is pronounced /ˈtɛnɛnt/.
What is the plural of tenent?
The plural of tenent is tenents.

Words near tenent in the dictionary

  1. Tenenbaum
  2. Tenenbaums
  3. tenendas
  4. tenendum
  5. tenendums
  6. tenent
  7. tenents
  8. Tener
  9. teneral
  10. tenerals
  11. tenericute

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