tenantlessadj.
/ˈtɛnəntlɪs/ a. Without a tenant or tenants; untenanted, unoccupied, empty. literal and figurative.
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society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > [adjective] > not > empty or unoccupied
emptyOE
unoccupied1425
void1479
vacant1518
waste1574
distenanted1594
tenantlessa1616
empse1642
untenanted1677
dead1879
a1616 W. Shakespeare Two Gentlemen of Verona (1623) v. iv. 8 Leaue not the Mansion so long Tenant-lesse, Lest growing ruinous, the building fall. View more context for this quotation
1814 H. F. Cary tr. Dante Vision I. xx. 85 Plying her arts, remain'd, and liv'd, and left Her body tenantless.
1826 B. Disraeli Vivian Grey I. ii. x. 158 Is it true that all the houses..are tenantless?
1871 R. Ellis tr. Catullus Poems lxiv. 181 Also a desert lies this region, a tenantless island.
b. Const. of: Untenanted by.
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1616 W. Browne Britannia's Pastorals II. ii. 46 Or haue the Parcæ..Left some friends body tenantlesse of life?
1869 Ann. Rep. Commissioner Agric. 1868 346 in U.S. Congress. Serial Set (40th Congr., 3rd Sess.: House of Representatives Executive Doc.) XV Streams heretofore tenantless of fish are now well stocked artificially.
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