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habitancy

habitancy is the alternative form of habitance.

Meaning of habitance

Noun

habitance (countable and uncountable, plural habitances)

  1. (obsolete) dwelling; abode; residence
    • What art thou , man , ( if man at all thou art , )
      That here in desert hast thine habitance1590, Edmund Spenser, “(please specify the book)”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC

Forms of habitancy

pluralhabitancies

Questions about habitancy

What is habitancy the alternative form of?
Habitancy is the alternative form of habitance.

Words near habitancy in the dictionary

  1. habitally
  2. habitan
  3. habitance
  4. habitances
  5. habitancies
  6. habitancy
  7. habitans
  8. habitant
  9. habitants
  10. habitat
  11. habitat loss

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Adapted from Wiktionary: habitancy (page history and authors); habitance (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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