habitancy
Americannoun
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habitancies
plural
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the act or fact of inhabiting; inhabitancy.
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the total number of inhabitants; population.
Other Word Forms
Noun Inflected Forms
Etymology
Origin of habitancy
First recorded in 1785–95; habit(ant) 1 + -ancy
Example Sentences
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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 Maurice Henry Hewlett
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 Marie Conway Oemler
The Creator has not altogether effaced his own image in any region of human habitancy.
From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 62, Number 385. November, 1847. by Various
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 Timothy Flint
They saw no signs of habitancy, and few tracks of animals.
From Gudrid the Fair A Tale of the Discovery of America by Maurice Henry Hewlett
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