Definitions
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- adjective obsolete Uninhabited.
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- adjective obsolete
uninhabited
Etymologies
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Examples
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From this opening the main lieth southwest, which coasting along we saw a disinhabited island, which so afterward appeared unto us: we bore with it, and named it Martha's Vineyard; from Shoal Hope it is eight leagues in circuit, the island is five miles, and hath 41 degrees and one quarter of latitude.
Great Epochs in American History, Vol. II The Planting Of The First Colonies: 1562—1733 Various 1885
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Besides this, Oxindono assigned them, for their lodgings, an old monastery of the Bonzas, which was disinhabited.
The Works of John Dryden Dryden, John, 1631-1700 1808
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That part of this Island, which stretcheth towards the North, is totally disinhabited.
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Besides this, Oxindono assigned them, for their lodgings, an old monastery of the Bonzas, which was disinhabited.
The works of John Dryden, $c now first collected in eighteen volumes. $p Volume 16 John Dryden 1665
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And althoughe those people had not bene converted, yet if they had bene lett to live, they mighte have bene profitable to your Majestie and an aide unto the Christians, and certaine partes of the lande shoulde not wholy have bene disinhabited, which by this occasion are altogether in a manner dispeopled.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation. Vol. XIII. America. Part II. Richard Hakluyt 1584
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"The next day in walking around Floresville we see on a hill a big red brick building that appears to be disinhabited.
The Gentle Grafter O. Henry 1886
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