Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun One who dwells in a place; an inhabitant.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun An inhabitant.
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- noun One who dwells in a place; an
inhabitant .
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- noun a person who inhabits a particular place
- noun activation by an inner spirit or force or principle
Etymologies
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Examples
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What of architectural beauty I now see, I know has gradually grown from within outward, out of the necessities and character of the indweller, who is the only builder — out of some unconscious truthfulness, and nobleness, without ever a thought for the appearance and whatever additional beauty of this kind is destined to be produced will be preceded by
Walden 2004
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They are indeed the ornaments of the living stones of this house, to make them meet and fit for such an indweller as the Lord Christ.
The Sermons of John Owen 1616-1683 1968
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Pollwart ther, William Craw indweller ther, Bessie
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Agnes Finnie, an indweller in the Potter-row, Edinburgh, was indicted before a judge and a jury, on twenty articles of indictment, charging her with witchcraft and sorcery.
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Henry Cairnes, "skipper in Leith, fled out of the countrie to the Easter seas;" and that "John Stewart, indweller in Leith, died in exile."
The Works of John Knox, Vol. 1 (of 6) John Knox
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And likewise I doe understand that this said John Wentworth, a sea robber, is an indweller with you, soe I desire that you would punish this rogue, according to your good law.
The Bay State Monthly — Volume 2, No. 5, February, 1885 Various
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On the side towards the park the wall was little more than a colonnade -- to which doors could be fitted in winter-time, and here, as from a loggia, the indweller could feast on one of the fairest prospects in Oxfordshire.
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We are agreed to receive into these dales no Judge, who is not a countryman and indweller, or who hath bought his place.
The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Volume 03 Masterpieces of German Literature Translated into English. in Twenty Volumes Kuno Francke 1892
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Mr. Jarvie's, whose dinner hour was now approaching, I stopped at a small unpretending shop, the sign of which intimated the indweller to be Christopher Neilson, surgeon and apothecary.
Rob Roy 1887
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It required more than one repetition of the blows to rouse an indweller, but finally a window was enough raised to permit the thrusting out of a becapped head.
Janice Meredith Paul Leicester Ford 1883
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