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from The Century Dictionary.

  • Not occupied by a tenant; not inhabited.

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  • adjective Not leased to or occupied by a tenant; unoccupied.

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  • adjective not leased to or occupied by a tenant

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Examples

  • And that is what this one does: the last word--"untenanted"--may reinforce other religious clues--boxes carried off, ghosts, dread--or it may simply leave us where we started: in an empty house.

    Archive 2009-09-01 Rus Bowden 2009

  • And that is what this one does: the last word--"untenanted"--may reinforce other religious clues--boxes carried off, ghosts, dread--or it may simply leave us where we started: in an empty house.

    Great Regulars: Writing about [Elizabeth] Jennings in 1970, Rus Bowden 2009

  • Making the most of a defensive realignment forced on Arsenal by the departure of Johan Djourou two minutes into the second half, he advanced on to Samir Nasri's pass into acres of untenanted space on the left of the visitors' penalty area.

    Manchester City grind any doubts about their resolve into the dust | Richard Williams 2011

  • Then, summoning the wild courage of despair, a throng of the revellers at once threw themselves into the black apartment, and, seizing the mummer, whose tall figure stood erect and motionless within the shadow of the ebony clock, gasped in unutterable horror at finding the grave-cerements and corpse-like mask which they handled with so violent a rudeness, untenanted by any tangible form.

    Nevermore Kelly Creagh 2010

  • Then, summoning the wild courage of despair, a throng of the revellers at once threw themselves into the black apartment, and, seizing the mummer, whose tall figure stood erect and motionless within the shadow of the ebony clock, gasped in unutterable horror at finding the grave-cerements and corpse-like mask which they handled with so violent a rudeness, untenanted by any tangible form.

    Nevermore Kelly Creagh 2010

  • Facing them are casts of the garments in orange wax: it's as if the untenanted garments had flung themselves at the opposite wall, or been suctioned out of their hiding places.

    The Real Thing; The Concise Dictionary of Dress 2010

  • There is, perhaps, nothing more depressing than an untenanted house, but one that is empty, damaged and neglected as well is a horrid sight and even on this sunny afternoon Jon felt that this outpost was both curious and uncanny.

    Archive 2008-07-01 2008

  • The house had been untenanted for some years and was threat - ening to moulder into a picturesque decay when the Douglases took possession of it.

    Chennai 2010

  • There is, perhaps, nothing more depressing than an untenanted house, but one that is empty, damaged and neglected as well is a horrid sight and even on this sunny afternoon Jon felt that this outpost was both curious and uncanny.

    Dungeness: Derek Jarman and Malcolm Saville 2008

  • Then, summoning the wild courage of despair, a throng of the revellers at once threw themselves into the black apartment, and, seizing the mummer, whose tall figure stood erect and motionless within the shadow of the ebony clock, gasped in unutterable horror at finding the grave-cerements and corpse-like mask which they handled with so violent a rudeness, untenanted by any tangible form.

    Nevermore Kelly Creagh 2010

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  • when they heard a noise behind a wall

    and an untenanted bicycle rolled into view.

    -The Epiplectic Bicycle

    May 9, 2009