Definition of "inhabitation"

inhabitation

noun
countable and uncountable, plural inhabitations
1. The act of inhabiting, or the state of being inhabited; indwelling.
2. Abode; place of dwelling; residence.
3. Population; inhabitants.
  Quotations
  Noiſe call you it or univerſal groan / As if the whole inhabitation periſ'd, / Blood, death, and deathful deeds are in the noiſe, / Ruin, deſtruction at the utmoſt point.
  1671, John Milton, “Samson Agonistes, […]”, in Paradise Regain’d. A Poem. In IV Books. To which is Added, Samson Agonistes, London: […] J. M[acock] for John Starkey […], pages 88–89, lines 1522–1525