habitancy

American  

[hab-i-tn-see] / ˈhæb ɪ tn si /

noun

plural

habitancies

1. the act or fact of inhabiting; inhabitancy.

2. the total number of inhabitants; population.

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Etymology

Origin of habitancy

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

Example Sentences

This day and night, and the succeeding one, the scenes in view were familiar; but in the course of the four or five that followed, all vestiges of civilized habitancy had disappeared.

From The First White Man of the West Life and Exploits of Col. Dan'l. Boone, the First Settler of Kentucky; Interspersed with Incidents in the Early Annals of the Country. by Flint, Timothy

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

There were no signs of habitancy; but there were white bears to be seen, in plenty.

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

He provided for the cure of the wounded, the habitancy of the houseless, the provision of the destitute.

From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 56, No. 345, July, 1844 by Various

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