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inhabitancy

[ in-hab-i-tn-see ]

noun

plural inhabitancies.
  1. place of residence; habitation.
  2. residency; occupancy.


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Other Word Forms

  • ԴDzi·󲹲i·Գ noun
  • ԴDzi·󲹲i·· noun plural noninhabitancies
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Word History and Origins

Origin of inhabitancy1

First recorded in 1675–85; inhabit(ant) + -ancy
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Example Sentences

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But other tokens of inhabitancy—or even of existence—in their path, the travellers found none.

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Giving the right to vote to the ignorant and incapable is only a part of the evils associated with the inhabitancy of such a multitude of citizens of a different and inferior race.

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They had found no signs of inhabitancy; but Karlsefne was very careful.

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Those who crossed into Kansas after the governor's proclamation and endeavored to continue actual inhabitancy, were with difficulty distinguished from those who now crossed for the first time, under a similar pretext.

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Nature is emptied of her contents to become the pure inhabitancy of one human soul.

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