| 释义 |
tenantless, a.|ˈtɛnəntlɪs|
[f. as prec. + -less.]
Without a tenant or tenants; untenanted, unoccupied, empty. lit. and fig.
1591Shakes. Two Gent. v. iv. 8 Leaue not the Mansion so longe Tenant-lesse, Lest growing ruinous, the building fall. 1814Cary Dante, Inf. xx. 85 Plying her arts, remain'd, and lived, and left Her body tenantless. 1826Disraeli Viv. Grey ii. ix, Is it true that all the houses..are tenantless? 1871R. Ellis Catullus lxiv. 181 Also a desert lies this region, a tenantless island.
b. Const. of: Untenanted by.
1613–16W. Browne Brit. Past. ii. ii. 46 Or haue the Parcæ..Left some friends body tenantlesse of life? 1868Rep. U.S. Commissioner Agric. (1869) 346 Streams heretofore tenantless of fish are now well stocked artificially. |