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tenents

tenents is the plural of tenent.

Meaning of tenent

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...

Questions about tenents

What is tenents the plural of?
Tenents is the plural of tenent.

Words near tenents in the dictionary

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

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