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Tenent

Tenent \Ten"ent\, n. [L. tenent they hold, 3d pers. pl. pres. of tenere.] A tenet. [Obs.]
--Bp. Sanderson.

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tenent

n. (context obsolete English) A tenet.

Usage examples of "tenent".

Mater tenens filiuin, uxorque maritum, In diversa pertrahunt, et tenent invitum, Fratres cum militibus velut compeditum Stringunt, nec discedere sinunt expeditum.