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Definition of Inhabitation

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"

Definition of Inhabitation

1. n. The act of inhabiting, or the state of being inhabited; indwelling.

Definition of Inhabitation

1. Noun. The act of inhabiting, or the state of being inhabited; indwelling. ¹

2. Noun. Abode; place of dwelling; residence. ¹

3. Noun. Population; inhabitants. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Inhabitation

1. [n -S]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Inhabitation

Literary usage of Inhabitation

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. An exposition of the Creed by John Pearson, Apostles' creed, Edward Burton (1847)
"And whereas it is said, that the Apostle hath hinted in what respect our body is the temple of the Holy Spirit, to wit, by inhabitation ; this is so far ..."

2. The Works of John Owen by John Owen (1826)
"The inhabitation of the Spirit in believers, is among those things which we ought, ... First, This personal inhabitation of the Holy Spirit in believers, ..."

3. Expository notes, with practical observations, on the New Testament by William Burkitt (1832)
"... namely, by the inhabitation of his Holy Spirit, which being a spirit of love in us, draws forth our love towards himself, and one towards another. ..."

4. Memoirs of the Life of Colonel Hutchinson, Governor of Nottingham by Lucy Apsley Hutchinson, Julius Hutchinson, Charles Harding Firth (1885)
"He had some small stock of his own plundered, and his house, by the perpetual haunting of the enemy, defaced, and for want of inhabitation, rendered almost ..."

5. The Newer Criticism and the Analogy of the Faith: A Reply to Lectures by W by Robert Watts (1882)
"Doctrine of a Collective Organic Spiritual inhabitation. But the author, whilst denying that the Holy Spirit was given to believers individually, ..."

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