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inhabiting, vbl. n.|ɪnˈhæbɪtɪŋ| [f. as prec. + -ing1.] The action of the verb inhabit; habitation, dwelling; † a dwelling-place.
a1400–50Alexander 3736 Oure inhabetting, ser, is in an Ilee [= isle]. 1495Trevisa's Barth. De P.R. xiii. iii. (W. de W.) 442 Wyth his course abowte citees a ryuer..strengthyth them and other dwellynge places of enhabytynge. 1577Holinshed Chron. (title-p.), The description and Chronicles of England, from the first inhabiting. 1625Purchas Pilgrims II. 1140 There is not any City, village or inhabiting, that cometh so near the height of Elana as Toro. 1848Dickens Dombey iii, The apartments which Mr. Dombey reserved for his own inhabiting. |