antirenter

English

Alternative forms

anti-renter

Etymology

From anti- +‎ rent +‎ -er.

Noun

antirenter (plural antirenters)

1. Someone who opposes the payment of rent; especially one during the Anti-Rent War in the mid 1800s, who resisted the collection of rents claimed by the patroons from the settlers on certain manorial lands in the State of New York.

Related terms

• antirent
• antirentism

References

• “antirenter”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.