| 释义 |
inˈhabitress
[f. prec. or inhabiter + -ess.]
A female inhabitant.
1601Weever Mirr. Mart. A iv b, Th' inhabitresse of foamie Phlegeton. 1616Chapman Homer's Hymn Venus (ad fin.), A Nymph, call'd Calucopides,..an inhabitresse On this thy wood-crownd Hill. 1778Lowth Transl. Isaiah xii. 6 Cry aloud, and shout for joy, O inhabitress of Sion. 1888Eng. Hist. Rev. III. 106 If the name be of Assyrian origin, it could only be ramat—that is, ‘the inhabitress’. |