ˈtenəntrē, -ri noun
( -es )
Etymology: Middle English, from tenant (I) + -ry
1. : property rented out to tenants
made … a neat village of brick buildings … for his own appropriate little tenantry with rents at a guinea a year — G.E.Fussell
2.
a. : the condition or state of occupying as a tenant : tenancy
ended his tenantry of the estate
b. : the condition, state, or system of being occupied by a tenant
survey his … lands for tenantry — J.C.Fitzpatrick
3. : the body of tenants
urban mechanics and laborers, the tenantry of New York — S.E.Morison & H.S.Commager
the empty shacks perched upon them rot and tumble about their tenantry of field rats and spiders — Edward Kimbrough