rare. [f. FREE a. + HOLDING ppl. a.; after FREEHOLD.] That possesses a freehold; in † early use absol. or sb. = AF. fraunc tenaunt, FREEHOLDER.

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13[?].  Coer de L., 1255.

        To Londoun, to hys somouns,
Come erl, bysschop, and barouns,
Abbotes, pryests, knyghtes, squyers,
Burgeyses, and manye bachelers,
Serjaunts, and every freeholdande,
The kynges hest to undyrstande.

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1890.  Spectator, 10 May, 648/2. Moreover, the working classes in all countries, without exception, display one mental weakness, from which we think freeholding peasants are comparatively exempt. They are unreasonably solicitous of sympathy from above, are moved by it as by nothing else, and when it is displayed, are as credulous as children.

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