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Dwelling   /dwˈɛlɪŋ/   Listen
verb
Dwell  v. t.  (past & past part. dwelt or dwelled; pres. part. dwelling)  To inhabit. (R.)


Dwell  v. i.  (past & past part. dwelt or dwelled; pres. part. dwelling)  
1.
To delay; to linger. (Obs.)
2.
To abide; to remain; to continue. "I 'll rather dwell in my necessity." "Thy soul was like a star and dwelt apart."
3.
To abide as a permanent resident, or for a time; to live in a place; to reside. "The parish in which I was born, dwell, and have possessions." "The poor man dwells in a humble cottage near the hall where the lord of the domain resides."
To dwell in, to abide in (a place); hence, to depend on. "My hopes in heaven to dwell."
To dwell on or To dwell upon, to continue long on or in; to remain absorbed with; to stick to; to make much of; as, to dwell upon a subject; a singer dwells on a note. "They stand at a distance, dwelling on his looks and language, fixed in amazement."
Synonyms: To inhabit; live; abide; sojourn; reside; continue; stay; rest.


noun
Dwelling  n.  Habitation; place or house in which a person lives; abode; domicile. "Hazor shall be a dwelling for dragons." "God will deign To visit oft the dwellings of just men." "Philip's dwelling fronted on the street."
Dwelling house, a house intended to be occupied as a residence, in distinction from a store, office, or other building.
Dwelling place, place of residence.





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"Dwelling" Quotes from Famous Books



... was called, obeyed to go out into a place which he was to receive for an inheritance; and he went out not knowing whither he went. By faith he became a sojourner in the land of promise as in a land not his own, dwelling in tents, with Isaac and Jacob, the heirs with him of the same promise; for he looked for the city which hath foundations, whose builder and maker ...
— The Making of a Nation - The Beginnings of Israel's History • Charles Foster Kent and Jeremiah Whipple Jenks
... a boy or a man's face," she declared, privately, to Helen, when the latter was dwelling on Stanley's ...
— Kit of Greenacre Farm • Izola Forrester
... is shorter still. He does not even mention George Fox by name. 'I was called for,' he says, 'to visit some friends in the North part of England, with whom I had union before I saw their faces, and afterwards I returned to my outward dwelling-place.' ...
— A Book of Quaker Saints • Lucy Violet Hodgkin
... constitute the first three parts of the joy-digesting apparatus. I think there is no need of dwelling on their efficacy in helping one to enjoy achievement. Let us pass, therefore, to the fourth and last ...
— The Joyful Heart • Robert Haven Schauffler
... me that it was not quite ingenuous in myself to attribute to the Indian writer in question (Rev. Peter Jones), the reflection on his countrymen, obviously conveyed in my expression, "discovering in him such in-dwelling ...
— A Treatise on the Six-Nation Indians • James Bovell Mackenzie


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