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