habitancy

American  

[hab-i-tn-see] / ˈhæb ɪ tn si /

noun

habitancies plural

1. the act or fact of inhabiting; inhabitancy.

2. the total number of inhabitants; population.

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Other Word Forms

Inflected Forms

noun

• habitancies
  plural

Etymology

Origin of habitancy

First recorded in 1785–95; habit(ant) ¹ + -ancy

Example Sentences

Before he approached it a hind and her calf had been cropping the grass between the cracks of the altar-steps; all else was very still, yet had a feeling of habitancy and familiar use.

From The Forest Lovers by Hewlett, Maurice Henry

Numerous small caves or sink holes exist in the neighborhood, three of which were reported as being dry, lighted, having good entrances, and well suited for habitancy.

From Archeological Investigations Bureau of American Ethnology, Bulletin 76 by Fowke, Gerard

Its stained brick walls, partly covered with ivy and lichens; its smokeless chimneys; its barred doors; its many shuttered windows, like blind eyes—all appeared deliberately to thrust aside human habitancy.

From A Woman Named Smith by Oemler, Marie Conway

They saw no signs of habitancy, and few tracks of animals.

From Gudrid the Fair A Tale of the Discovery of America by Hewlett, Maurice Henry

What puzzled Leif very much was this, that in so fair a country there was no sign of habitancy.

From Gudrid the Fair A Tale of the Discovery of America by Hewlett, Maurice Henry