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untenant en · VERB

Etymology

From un- + tenant.

Meanings

1. (transitive) To remove a tenant from.
   • 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:
   • 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:

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