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Definition of Inhabitancy
1. Noun. The act of dwelling in or living permanently in a place (said of both animals and men). "He studied the creation and inhabitation and demise of the colony"
Generic synonyms: Occupancy, Tenancy
Specialized synonyms: Cohabitation, Bivouacking, Camping, Encampment, Tenting
Derivative terms: Inhabit, Inhabit, Inhabit
Definition of Inhabitancy
1. Noun. The condition of inhabiting or of being inhabited; occupancy ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Inhabitancy
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Inhabitancy
Literary usage of Inhabitancy
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Practical Treatise of the Law of Evidence, and Digest of Proofs, in Civil by Thomas Starkie (1891)
"A dwelling-house is constituted by a permanent inhabitancy of the house.
Mere inclosed ground, or a booth, or tent, is not a dwelling-house (A) ; but a ..."
2. A Treatise on the Law of Domicil, National, Quasi-national, and Municipal by Michael William Jacobs (1887)
"Domicil and inhabitancy. ... or inhabitancy is another word which ... statutory
inhabitancy is construed to be substantially equivalent to domicil;2 at ..."
3. The Works of Charles Sumner by Charles Sumner (1880)
"ELIGIBILITY TO THE SENATE: QUESTION OF inhabitancy. ... Show me a citizen actually
in a State, then the intent to remain fixes his inhabitancy. ..."
4. Abridgment of the Debates of Congress, from 1789 to 1856: From Gales and by United States Congress, Thomas Hart Benton (1858)
"It is enough for us that he has become an inhabitant of the District, and has
lost his inhabitancy in Massachusetts, and is thereby rendered obnoxious to ..."
5. Warning Out in New England by Josiah Henry Benton (1911)
"These proceedings of the Massachusetts and Plymouth towns with regard to inhabitancy
of newcomers were not only regarded as within the power of towns, ..."
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