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Inhabitancy   Listen
noun
Inhabitancy, Inhabitance  n.  
1.
The act of inhabiting, or the state of being inhabited; the condition of an inhabitant; residence; occupancy. "Ruins yet resting in the wild moors testify a former inhabitance."
2.
(Law) The state of having legal right to claim the privileges of a recognized inhabitant; especially, the right to support in case of poverty, acquired by residence in a town; habitancy.





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... this name to regions that were cultivated and had fixed inhabitancy, as opposed to the wilds, or the unsettled residences of the Celtiaid, Celyddon, Gwyddyl, Gwyddelod, Ysgotiaid, and Ysgodogion; which are terms descriptive of such tribes as lived by hunting and tending ...
— Y Gododin - A Poem on the Battle of Cattraeth • Aneurin


Words linked to "Inhabitancy" :   inhabitation, inhabit, bivouacking, tenancy, cohabitation


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