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/dwɛl ɑn/ Listen

verb

Dwell v. i. (past & past part. dwelt or dwelled; pres. part. dwelling)

To delay; to linger. (Obs.)

To abide; to remain; to continue. "I 'll rather dwell in my necessity." "Thy soul was like a star and dwelt apart."

To abide as a permanent resident, or for a time; to live in a place; to reside. "The parish in which I was born, dwell, and have possessions." "The poor man dwells in a humble cottage near the hall where the lord of the domain resides."

To dwell in, to abide in (a place); hence, to depend on. "My hopes in heaven to dwell."

To dwell on or To dwell upon, to continue long on or in; to remain absorbed with; to stick to; to make much of; as, to dwell upon a subject; a singer dwells on a note. "They stand at a distance, dwelling on his looks and language, fixed in amazement."

Synonyms: To inhabit; live; abide; sojourn; reside; continue; stay; rest.

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... wars, and its haunts, and its sunshine idleness—how he used thus to talk in the evenings, and on Sundays, to the boy upon his knee; so that Toussaint felt, from his infancy, like an African, and the descendant of chiefs. This was a theme which Madame L'Ouverture loved to dwell on, and especially when listened to as now. The Congo chief and his wife hung upon her words, and told in their turn how their youth had been spent at home—how they had been kidnapped, and delivered over to the whites. In the eagerness of their talk, they were ...

— The Hour and the Man - An Historical Romance • Harriet Martineau

... one have to submit to who has become the martyr—the Saint Sebastian—of a literary correspondence! I will not dwell on the possible impression produced on a sensitive nature by reading one's own premature obituary, as I have told you has been my recent experience. I will not stop to think whether the urgent request for an autograph by return post, in view of the possible contingencies which might render ...

— Over the Teacups • Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.

... dwell on the architectural wonders of Tanjore and the Caves of Ellora; the magnificent entertainments and Princely hospitality accorded to us by the Nizam of Hyderabad, the late Maharajas of Mysore and Travancore, the Maharaja of ...

— Forty-one years in India - From Subaltern To Commander-In-Chief • Frederick Sleigh Roberts

... of every tongue Dwell on His love with sweetest song; And infant voices shall proclaim Their early blessings on ...

— The Warriors • Lindsay, Anna Robertson Brown

... had been busy with his name in his native village. It was said that he was an officer in the German Army, and on the strength of that rumour his parents were ordered by the Chief Constable to leave the village and not to dwell on the East Coast. It was a sentence of death on them. The order broke the old man's heart, and he committed suicide. The son arrived to find his father dead and his mother distracted by her bereavement. He took her away to the seaside for a rest, but on their ...

— Pebbles on the Shore • Alpha of the Plough (Alfred George Gardiner)

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