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Dwelling   /dwˈɛlɪŋ/   Listen
verb
Dwell  v. t.  (past & past part. dwelt or dwelled; pres. part. dwelling)  To inhabit. (R.)



Dwell  v. i.  (past & past part. dwelt or dwelled; pres. part. dwelling)  
1.
To delay; to linger. (Obs.)
2.
To abide; to remain; to continue. "I 'll rather dwell in my necessity." "Thy soul was like a star and dwelt apart."
3.
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.



noun
Dwelling  n.  Habitation; place or house in which a person lives; abode; domicile. "Hazor shall be a dwelling for dragons." "God will deign To visit oft the dwellings of just men." "Philip's dwelling fronted on the street."
Dwelling house, a house intended to be occupied as a residence, in distinction from a store, office, or other building.
Dwelling place, place of residence.






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"Dwelling" Quotes from Famous Books



... cleared and fenced into convenient paddocks. (b) The dairy herd. (c) Cowbails and piggeries. (d) All necessary utensils and implements. (e) Dwelling. ...
— Australia The Dairy Country • Australia Department of External Affairs

... revile your neighbor. If you wish your child to show charity toward the erring, you must set the example by the habitual exercise of that virtue yourself. Without this your teaching will be of but little avail. If you take pleasure in dwelling upon the faults of others, if you refuse to cover over their infirmities with the mantle of charity, your example will nullify your teaching, and your admonitions will ...
— Our Deportment - Or the Manners, Conduct and Dress of the Most Refined Society • John H. Young

... at the Ogallalla, and out of his own pocket Cranston was adding to the log quarters assigned to him, for Margaret had promptly announced that she would not remain at Scott, that where he dwelt was her dwelling, and they had known far greater isolation and danger in the past. Indeed, there was little danger of their going now, for in the presence of so strong a force the Indians would be meek enough. Two log huts were connected and thrown into one as rapidly as possible, and it was fully ...
— Under Fire • Charles King

... more striking and natural manner the strong feeling which exists in the Scottish mind on this subject. At a certain time, the hares in the neighbourhood of a Scottish burgh had, from the inclemency of the season or from some other cause, become emboldened more than usual to approach the dwelling-places of men; so much so that on one Sunday morning a hare was seen skipping along the street as the people were going to church. An old man, spying puss in this unusual position, significantly remarked, "Ay, yon beast kens weel it is the Sabbath-day;" taking it for ...
— Reminiscences of Scottish Life and Character • Edward Bannerman Ramsay

... known * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * What they say of the example, so holy, so pure, That Ninon gives to worldlings all, By dwelling within a nunnery's wall. How many tears the poor lorn maid Shed, when her mother, alone, unafraid, Mid flaming tapers with coats of arms, Priests chanting their sad funereal alarms, Went down to the tomb in her winding sheet To serve for the ...
— Life, Letters, and Epicurean Philosophy of Ninon de L'Enclos, - the Celebrated Beauty of the Seventeenth Century • Robinson [and] Overton, ed. and translation.


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