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noun

Inhabitancy, Inhabitance n.

The act of inhabiting, or the state of being inhabited; the condition of an inhabitant; residence; occupancy. "Ruins yet resting in the wild moors testify a former inhabitance."

(Law) The state of having legal right to claim the privileges of a recognized inhabitant; especially, the right to support in case of poverty, acquired by residence in a town; habitancy.

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Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Inhabitancy" Quotes from Famous Books

... that the right of property in slaves is "before and higher than any constitutional sanction," it made the right to vote upon it depend on the one hand on a test oath to "support this constitution" in order to repel conscientious free-State voters, and on the other hand on mere inhabitancy on the day of election to attract nomadic Missourians; it postponed the right to amend or alter for a period of seven years; it kept the then existing territorial laws in force until abrogated by State ...

— Abraham Lincoln, A History, Volume 2 • John George Nicolay and John Hay

Words linked to "Inhabitancy" : tenancy, occupancy, inhabitation, inhabit, cohabitation, tenting, encampment, camping, habitation, bivouacking