1629 J. Gaule Practique Theories Christs Predict. 228 One shall succeed him, not in a Rentlesse onely, but in a Seamelesse Coat.

1858 E. S. Sheppard Rumour III. ii. 51 A white and rentless veil, rigid as iron and cold as ice, fell between his passionate presentiment and her.

1881 J. Nichol Death Themistocles 197 I saw the rentless banner wave.

1934 W. E. Shiels Gonzalo de Tapia iv. 45 Fellowship with his brothers must be woven into a rentless garment.

1648 H. Hexham Groot Woorden-boeck Rentloos geldt,..Rentlesse money that lies still.

1738 Enq. Causes Encrease Poor 8 Man a Cottage may be depopulated, many an House stand void, and rentless to the Landlord.

1841 Hansard Commons 3 June 1102 Some plan by which the interest of their capital may be recovered from the rentless estates of the ruined landlords.

1850 J. S. Blackie tr. Æschylus Lyrical Dramas II. 141 A double lodgment for our use, One from the state, the other from the king, Rentless we hold.

1891 Polit. Sci. Q. 6 132 Everything sells..for a price that pays for producing it on rentless and valueless land.

1956 Jrnl. Polit. Econ. 64 42 The keystone of Ricardo's system is the proposition that ‘profits depend on wages, not on nominal, but on real wages’... It is in the last sense, in which wages are a function of the labor time required to produce wage goods..on the rentless margin of production, that profits are said to depend upon wages.

1959 Waterloo (Iowa) Daily Courier 8 July 21/5 (headline) Triplets' folks are moving to rentless home.

1997 W. Wolman & A. Colamosca Judas Econ. ii. vi. 120 This was not to be a one-shot arrangement, but a standing weekly, deskless, rentless, secretaryless ‘power’ meeting at a tiny tea table.

1745 J. Grigg Saviour 7 Men rentless Tenants of his Globe at Will.

1789 J. Byng Diary 9 June in Torrington Diaries (1935) II. 9 My wishes wou'd extend to fix, within..such a place, my honest dependents, and firmest friends; by placing the former in various lodges; (pension'd, and rent-less).

1826 Monthly Mag. Dec. 578 The doors removed from the apartments by the landlord, to expel the rentless and unprofitable tenant.

1865 Jrnl. Statist. Soc. 28 2 The poor, rentless, rateless, and taxless Hindoo weaver.

1897 H. Campbell Household Econ. iv. 60 A house keeps in repair better when occupied,..a rentless tenant is better than none.

1932 B. A. Botkin Home Town in Prairie Schooner Winter 35 The streets were home to him... To..roam familiar streets,..possessionless And homeless though he felt... He was the rentless tenant, like a mouse that slips in from the winter fields.

1991 Syracuse Herald-Amer. (N.Y.) 27 Oct. f1/2 I'd heard the house is haunted... Jamie said of his rentless tenants, ‘I've never felt anything myself. Others have, though.’

1822 Cobbett's Weekly Polit. Reg. 4 May 297 This may pacify the rentless landlords a little.

1849 Gentleman's Mag. Nov. 473/1 Its rentless proprietors, its famished peasantry, its deserted homesteads.

1886 Times 30 Sept. 7/6 The landlords of a whole county should be allowed to go rentless.