indweller

English

Etymology

From indwell + -er or in- + dweller.

Noun

indweller (plural indwellers)

  1. One who dwells in a place; an inhabitant.
    • 1832, Letitia Elizabeth Landon, Heath's Book of Beauty, 1833, The Talisman, page 58:
      "How strong is the love of the country in all indwellers of towns!" exclaimed Charles.
    • 1883, Edmund Doidge Anderson Morshead, transl., The Suppliant Maidens of Aeschylus, page 28:
      But I will call the country's indwellers,
      And with soft words th' assembly will persuade[.]
    • 1968, Joseph Campbell, The Hero with a Thousand Faces, 2nd edition, London: Fontana Press, published 1993, page 29:
      "Only the bodies, of which this eternal, imperishable, incomprehensible Self is the indweller, are said to have an end."

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