meaning of inhabitancy
1.  The act of inhabiting, or the state of being inhabited; the condition of an inhabitant; residence; occupancy. 
2.  The state of having legal right to claim the privileges of a recognized inhabitant; especially, the right to support in case of poverty, acquired by residence in a town; habitancy. 
3.  the act of dwelling in or living permanently in a place said of both animals and men; "he studied the creation and inhabitation and demise of the 
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