indwellern.
/ˈɪnˌdwɛlə/ a. One who dwells or lives in a place; an inhabitant. Also figurative.
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society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabitant > [noun]
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wonnera1340
dwellera1382
livera1382
indweller1382
resiant1405
inhabitor1413
inhabitera1425
tenanta1425
abider1440
citizenc1450
inhabitant1462
resident1463
denizen1474
inhabitator?a1475
mansionarya1475
habitant1490
incolera1513
occupier?1542
land-occupier1576
residentiary1581
burgessa1586
incolant1596
consistorian1599
ledger1600
resider1632
residenter1644
habitator1646
endwellera1649
incolary1652
incolist1657
insetter1712
houser1871
1382 J. Wyclif Psalms xxxii[i]. 8 Of hym forsothe first ben togidere moued alle the indwelleris the world [L. omnes inhabitantes orbem].
1382 J. Wyclif Zeph. ii. 5 Y shal distruye thee, so that an yndweller be not [L. ut non sit inhabitator].
a1525 Crying ane Playe 22 in W. A. Craigie Asloan MS (1925) II. 150 Prowest baillies officeris And honorable Induellaris Marchandis and familiaris Of all þis fair towne.
1535 Bible (Coverdale) 2 Chron. xx. 20 Herken vnto me O Iuda, & ye indwellers of Ierusalem.
1618 E. Elton Complaint Sanctified Sinner xvii. 351 The corruption of nature..is still an In-dweller in them.
1633 Bp. J. Hall Occas. Medit. (ed. 3) §cx An house ready to fall on the head of the indweller.
1855 E. B. Pusey Doctr. Real Presence Note S. 84 We may receive the good Lord as our indweller.
1860 T. P. Thompson Audi Alteram Partem (1861) III. cxvii. 54 If France could..with the assent of the in-dwellers, rejoin the Rhenish provinces.
b. A mere resident; a sojourner.
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society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabitant > temporary inhabitant > [noun]
sojourner14..
surgyon14..
sojournerc1460
sojourantc1475
sojournant1477
perhendinancer1489
lodger1511
indweller1535
transient1740
visitant1751
perendinant1886
one-nighter1923
1535 Bible (Coverdale) Gen. xxiii. A I am a straunger and an indweller amonge you [straūger in text].
1826 W. Scott Jrnl. 29 June (1939) 193 I have been so long a citizen of Edinburgh, now an indweller only.
1835 J. P. Kennedy Horse-shoe Robinson (1860) xiii. 150 He was an in-dweller at the homestead.
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