The act of dwelling in or living permanently in a place (said of both animals and men)
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They had found no signs of inhabitancy; but Karlsefne was very careful.
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Ogier advanced into the country, looking for some marks of inhabitancy, but found none.
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Nature is emptied of her contents to become the pure inhabitancy of one human soul.
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A new aspect of inter-planetary inhabitancy or occupancy-
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A very few days inhabitancy where Master Roy was of the party, had assured this lady that the page must be ridded.
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This statute, therefore, rendered it almost impracticable for a poor man to gain a new settlement in the old way, by forty days inhabitancy.