tenent

English

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈtɛnɛnt/

Noun

tenent (plural tenents)

1. (obsolete) A tenet.
   • 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 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.

Anagrams

• entent, net net, net-net, tenten

Latin

Verb

tenent

1. third-person plural present active indicative of teneō

Romansch

Etymology

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Noun

tenent m (plural tenents)

1. (military, Rumantsch Grischun, Puter, Vallader) lieutenant

Synonyms

• (Rumantsch Grischun, Sursilvan, Sutsilvan, Surmiran) litinent