inhabitation

From inhabit +‎ -ation.

• Rhymes: -eɪʃən

inhabitation (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.
   • 1671, John Milton, “Samson Agonistes, […].”, in Paradise Regain’d. A Poem. In IV Books. To which is Added, Samson Agonistes, London: […] J[ohn] M[acock] for John Starkey […], →OCLC, pages 88–89, lines 1522–1525:

     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.