Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Preterit and past participle of dwell.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- imperative, past participle of
dwell .
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- verb Simple past tense and past participle of
dwell .
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Examples
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"Not far from where my father lives, _a lady_, a neighbour by, blest with as great a _beauty_ as nature durst bestow without _undoing_, dwelt, and most happily, as I thought then, and blest the house a thousand times she _dwelt in_.
The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb — Volume 5 The Letters of Charles and Mary Lamb Mary Lamb 1805
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The word, "dwelt," is consistent with any indefinite length of time.
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Meanwhile Zayn al-Mawasif and her women drave on with all diligence till they were far distant from the city and it so fortuned that they came to a convent by the way, wherein dwelt a Prior called Danis and forty monks. 368 When the Prior saw her beauty, he went out to her and invited her to alight, saying, “Rest with us ten days and after wend your ways.”
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Which in my spirit dwelt is fluttering, faint, and low.
2006 » August 2006
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Which in my spirit dwelt is fluttering, faint, and low.
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Ispahán, a city hight the Green City, wherein dwelt a King named
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Go ye to my place in Silo, where my name dwelt from the beginning: and see what I did to it for the wickedness of my people Israel:
The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Complete The Challoner Revision Anonymous
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Go ye to my place in Silo, where my name dwelt from the beginning: and see what I did to it for the wickedness of my people Israel:
The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Book 28: Jeremias The Challoner Revision
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Go ye to my place in Silo, where my name dwelt from the beginning: and see what I did to it for the wickedness of my people
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Go ye to my place in Silo, where my name dwelt from the beginning: and see what I did to it for the wickedness of my people
The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Complete Anonymous
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