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