habitant
noun/ˈhabɪtənt/
Etymology From Middle English habytaunt, from Middle French habitant. By surface analysis, habit (“to inhabit”) + -ant.
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Archaic Synonym of inhabitant /dweller.
- The last dark branches which intercepted his view gave way, and he saw a heap of blackened ruins. Scarcely aware of his own actions, he sprang from his horse. A single glance convinced him it could harbour no human habitant.1831, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter XVII, in Romance and Reality. […], volume III, London: Henry Colburn and Richard Bentley, […], →OCLC, pages 288–289:
- Myriads of habitants are ever sleeping, Or dead, or fled from nameless pestilence!1874, James Thomson, The City of Dreadful Night: