inhabitancy

Estimated CEFR level: C2 — Proficiency

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noun the act of dwelling in or living permanently in a place (said of both animals and men)

From inhabitant + -cy or inhabit + -ancy.

But if a person’s situation is such, that it is doubtful whether he is actually removable or not, he shall, by giving of notice, compel the parish either to allow him a settlement uncontested, by suffering him to continue forty days, or by removing him to try the right.” This statute, therefore, rendered it almost impracticable for a poor man to gain a new settlement in the old way, by forty days inhabitancy. — An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations, Adam Smith

inhabitation, habitation

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