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indweller, in-dweller|ˈɪnˌdwɛlə(r)|
[f. in adv. 11 e + dweller: cf. prec. In Wyclif rendering L. inhabitāns, inhabitātor.]
One who dwells or lives in a place; an inhabitant. Also fig.
1382Wyclif Ps. xxxii[i]. 8 Of hym forsothe first ben togidere moued alle the indwelleris the world [Vulg. omnes inhabitantes orbem]. ― Zeph. ii. 5 Y shal distruye thee, so that an yndweller be not [Vulg. ut non sit inhabitator]. 1535Coverdale 2 Chron. xx. 20 Herken vnto me O Iuda, & ye indwellers of Ierusalem. 1593Interl. Droichis Pt. Play 22 in Dunbar's Poems (1893) 315 Prowest, baillies, officeris, And honerable induellaris, Marchandis and familiaris Of all this fair towne. 1608–33Bp. Hall Occas. Medit. §110 A house ready to fall on the head of the indweller. 1618E. Elton Rom. vii. (1622) 351 The corruption of nature..is still an in-dweller in them. 1855Pusey Doctr. Real Presence Note S. 84 We may receive the good Lord as our indweller. 1860Gen. P. Thompson Audi Alt. III. cxvii. 54 If France could..with the assent of the in-dwellers, rejoin the Rhenish provinces.
b. A mere resident; a sojourner.
1535Coverdale Gen. xxiii. 4, I am a straunger and an indweller amonge you. 1826Scott Jrnl. 29 June, I have been so long a citizen of Edinburgh, now an indweller only. 1835J. P. Kennedy Horse Shoe R. xiii. (1860) 150 He was an in-dweller at the homestead. |