untenant

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verb

To remove a tenant from.

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Meanings

verbuntenant (third-person singular simple present untenants, present participle untenanting, simple past and past participle untenanted)

present singular third person untenants · participle present untenanting · participle past untenanted · past untenanted

  1. transitiveTo remove a tenant from.

    The play moves them from mythology into religion, gives them a local worship, but without untenanting its former possessors.

    1924, Herbert Weir Smyth, “VIII. Orestea. III: Eumenides”, in Aeschylean Tragedy, page 230
    1 more example

    These are the Ignorant Omniscients to make place for whom we are exhorted by modern sages to exclude our God and Untenant the Universe.

    1796, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, The Destiny of Nations

Origin

From un- + tenant.

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APA

untenant. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/untenant

MLA

“untenant.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/untenant. Accessed November 4, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “untenant,” accessed November 4, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/untenant.

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