inhabitationn.
/ɪnˌhabɪˈteɪʃən/ 1.
a. The action of inhabiting; the fact or condition of being or becoming inhabited.
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society > inhabiting and dwelling > [noun]
wonningc960
bewistc1200
livingc1350
lodging1362
habitationc1374
indwellinga1382
dwellingc1384
inhabitinga1400
bidingc1400
inhabitationc1400
residencec1405
mansiona1425
winningc1425
demur1444
abodec1450
resianty1467
demurrance1509
resiance1566
place-being1567
residency1579
resiancy1580
commorancy1586
residing1587
inhabitance1588
abodement1592
commorance1594
habit1603
commoration1623
inwoning1647
inhabitancy1681
habitancy1792
domicile1835
occupying1849
abidal1850
tenancy1856
c1400 tr. Secreta Secret., Gov. Lordsh. (1898) 62 Þurgh trew affiance dwellys folk togedre, and þerby ys inhabitacioun in citeez, comunynge to-gedre of ffolke.
1517 Domesday Inclos. I. 221 A tenement..ys decayd and fallen down, and non Inabytacyon on yt this xviii yers.
1569 R. Grafton Chron. I. iv. 32 The Originall names, and the first inhabitation of this Realme.
1601 R. Johnson tr. G. Botero Trauellers Breuiat 123 By the daily increase of people, the countrey be euen pestered with inhabitation.
1773 Observ. State Poor 74 Inhabitation for three years, or three months, or three days..will be equally valid for the creation of a parishioner.
1802 W. Paley Nat. Theol. xv. 296 Qualifying the animal for that mode of life and inhabitation, to which the structure of its eye confines it.
1856 J. Ruskin Mod. Painters IV. 348 A pauper or two still inhabiting where inhabitation is possible.
b. figurative. Spiritual indwelling.
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society > faith > aspects of faith > spirituality > [noun]
ghostlinesslOE
spiritala1393
spiritualtya1398
spiritualtyc1400
spiritualityc1485
inhabitation1615
spiritual-mindedness1647
spiritual1649
sprituality1694
spiritualism1744
otherworldliness1817
disattachment1846
supersensualism1847
otherworldism1872
other-worldness1872
upliftedness1893
1615 N. Byfield Expos. Epist. Coloss. (1869) 10 The effects or fruits of it..are: 1. The inhabitation of Christ.
1618 E. Elton Complaint Sanctified Sinner xvii. 352 Gods children..are not freed from the inhabitation of sinne.
1677 T. Gale Court of Gentiles: Pt. IV iv. 91 The Greek Fathers terme efficacious Grace and our Dependence thereon..the inhabitation of the Holy Spirit.
1841–8 F. Myers Catholic Thoughts II. xxix. 71 The general inhabitation of the Christian Body by the Christian Spirit.
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society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > [noun]
stead1297
tower and townc1330
wonec1330
seat and soila1400
inhabitationc1400
populationa1544
c1400 Chron. Eng. lxxv, in Herrig Archiv LII. 16 His one foote shall be sette in wike and that othir in london and he shall embrace iij inhabitacouns.
1495 Trevisa's Bartholomeus De Proprietatibus Rerum (de Worde) xiv. ii. 465 The erthe is enhabytacion of bodyes that haue lyf.
1515 Act 7 Hen. VIII c. 1 Tythyng houses and other enhabitacyons in any paryshe.
1603 R. Johnson tr. G. Botero Hist. Descr. Worlde 209 Cusistan the inhabitation [1601 habitation] of the Susiani.
1639 W. Berkeley Lost Lady i. ii, in W. C. Hazlitt Dodsley's Sel. Coll. Old Eng. Plays (1875) XII. 572 When you her know, you will believe, That virtue chose that dark inhabitation.
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society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabitant > population > [noun]
erd-folka1325
furniture1526
inhabitation1588
population1612
peopling1622
stock1668
populace1687
habitancya1859
tenantrya1871
1588 R. Parke tr. J. G. de Mendoza Comm. Notable Thinges in tr. J. G. de Mendoza Hist. Kingdome of China 329 They came vnto a great inhabitation of Indians.
1671 J. Milton Samson Agonistes 1512 Noise call you it or universal groan As if the whole inhabitation perish'd. View more context for this quotation
1818 Blackwood's Mag. 4 328 A Craniopolis like the catacombs, containing so enormous an ‘inhabitation’, that no regular census has ever been made.
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