Term Gallery logo

Meanings of local habitation in English

We have no meanings for "local habitation" in our records yet.
Usage of local habitation in English
1
They would have us reduced to concept, without body or local habitation.
The Irish Times
2
But the question of a local habitation remained as difficult as ever.
The Quest of the Simple Life
3
Was he contending about airy nothings without local habitation or a name?
Our Unitarian Gospel
4
Victor Favraud, that airy nothing, is scarcely a ' local habitation and a name' now!
Miriam Monfort / A Novel
5
Surrounding it was not just a fictional context, but a local habitation with a name.
The Irish Times
6
Thus Hadrian completed the work of Titus, and Judaism was divorced from its local habitation.
Judaism
7
But the young gull cares not for "a local habitation and a name."
Days Off, and Other Digressions
8
They had not a local habitation or a name.
Coningsby; Or, The New Generation
9
His family had its local habitation at Overyssel in the Netherlands and still is known there.
The Portland Peerage Romance
10
The lack of fixed local habitation is an evil common to all classes of city dwellers.
Problems of Poverty: An Inquiry into the Industrial Condition of...
11
Finally, civilization is not only a matter of local habitation, but a matter of individual men.
Horace and His Influence
12
A monastery was founded, a local habitation secured.
The Coming of the Friars
13
A local habitation and a name.
The ode less travelled: unlocking the poet within
14
Now the truth is that the American frontier of history has many a local habitation and many a name.
The Passing of the Frontier: A Chronicle of the Old West
15
There is a natural tendency among uncivilized peoples to give a " local habitation" to every general tradition.
Atlantis: The Antedeluvian World
16
According to such logic our "I am I" becomes "an infinity of consciousness" with no local habitation.
The Complex Vision
This collocation consists of:
Local habitation through the time
Local habitation across language varieties
United Kingdom
Common