tenurial

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adjective

Of or pertaining to tenure.

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Meanings

adjectivetenurial (not comparable)
  1. not comparableOf or pertaining to tenure.

    All those who attended these courts did so in virtue of the tenurial obligations.

    1913, Bede Jarrett, “Feudalism”, in Catholic Encyclopedia
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    Rakam tenants were granted a number of tenurial facilities that were not available to cultivators on lands of other categories.

    1976, Mahesh Chandra Regmi, Landownership in Nepal, page 164

    Community-based tenurial systems are rarely acknowledged by national governments or logging operators in any meaningful way.

    2000, Andrew Graham Young, David Boshier, Timothy James Butler Boyle, Forest Conservation Genetics: Principles and Practice, volume 1, page 270

Origin

From tenure + -ial.

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Rhymes & wordplay

Anagrams

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APA

tenurial. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/tenurial

MLA

“tenurial.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/tenurial. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “tenurial,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/tenurial.

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