nonce-wd. [f. TENANT sb. + -ISM, after landlordism.] The principles and practice of tenants; tenantry; the tenant interest collectively.
1866. G. Haven, Pilgrim’s Wallet, I. i. 8. Romanism increases the degradation of tenantism, and rum completes it.
1880. B. H. Becker, in Daily News, 3 Nov., 5/6. Exacting ‘landlordism’ and recalcitrant ‘tenantism’ seem here to have said their last word.
