inhabitation
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]- Rhymes: -eɪʃən
Noun
[edit]inhabitation (countable and uncountable, plural inhabitations)
- The act of inhabiting, or the state of being inhabited; indwelling.
- Abode; place of dwelling; residence.
- Population; inhabitants.
- 1671, John Milton, “Samson Agonistes, […].”, in Paradise Regain’d. A Poem. In IV Books. To which is Added, Samson Agonistes, London: […] J[ohn] M[acock] for John Starkey […], →OCLC, pages 88–89, lines 1522–1525:
- Noiſe call you it or univerſal groan / As if the whole inhabitation periſ'd, / Blood, death, and deathful deeds are in the noiſe, / Ruin, deſtruction at the utmoſt point.