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tenurial en · ADJ

Etymology

From tenure + -ial.

Meanings

  1. (not-comparable) Of 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:
    • 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:

Deriveds

nontenurial · tenurially