ppl. a. [UN-1 8.] Not occupied by a tenant or tenants.

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1673.  Temple, Ess. Irel., Wks. 1720, I. 117. The Country seems to be full stock’d, no Ground that I hear of being untenanted.

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1677.  Yarranton, Eng. Improv., 16. There needed not one House to stand empty and untenanted.

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1741.  Richardson, Pamela, II. 203. A pretty little Farm and House, untenanted.

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1808.  Scott, Marm., II. Introd. All silent now—for now are still Thy bowers, untenanted Bowhill.

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1887.  Spectator, 22 Oct., 1413. There are not now so many untenanted spaces on the globe suitable for human habitation.

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  fig.  1830.  Carlyle, Misc. (1872), III. 53. In that hour thou wilt look back on thy untenanted life.

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