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verb

Dwell v. i. (past & past part. dwelt or dwelled; pres. part. dwelling)

To delay; to linger. (Obs.)

To abide; to remain; to continue. "I 'll rather dwell in my necessity." "Thy soul was like a star and dwelt apart."

To abide as a permanent resident, or for a time; to live in a place; to reside. "The parish in which I was born, dwell, and have possessions." "The poor man dwells in a humble cottage near the hall where the lord of the domain resides."

To dwell in, to abide in (a place); hence, to depend on. "My hopes in heaven to dwell."

To dwell on or To dwell upon, to continue long on or in; to remain absorbed with; to stick to; to make much of; as, to dwell upon a subject; a singer dwells on a note. "They stand at a distance, dwelling on his looks and language, fixed in amazement."

Synonyms: To inhabit; live; abide; sojourn; reside; continue; stay; rest.

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"Dwell on" Quotes from Famous Books

... dwell on the mortification I felt at being obliged thus to abandon my long-cherished projects. The delays I had already experienced were sufficiently vexatious, but I had endeavoured to turn the time thus lost ...

— Journals Of Two Expeditions Of Discovery In North-West And Western Australia, Vol. 1 (of 2) • George Grey

... a flood of wondrous thoughts Each Christian breast must swell When, wandering back through ages past, With simple faith they dwell On quiet Nazareth's sacred sod, Where the Child Saviour's ...

— The Poetical Works of Mrs. Leprohon (Mrs. R.E. Mullins) • Rosanna Eleanor Leprohon

... our survey of the Germanic invasions we need to dwell on the forces that made for progress, rather than on those that made for decline. Classical civilization, we have already found reason to believe, [17] had begun to decay long before the Germans broke up the empire. ...

— EARLY EUROPEAN HISTORY • HUTTON WEBSTER

... I need not dwell on the little incidents of life on ship. It must have been the second day out that I observed Leontine and Sydney together on the promenade-deck. They seemed to be quite interested in each other, though I felt sure that Leontine was making a play ...

— The Treasure-Train • Arthur B. Reeve

... poisonous vapours as the tropic-dweller must needs do, we could linger bare-headed, lightly clad, out of doors, listening to the distant roar of a river, or watching the exquisite tints of the evening sky. I dwell on this to explain that in almost any other country there would have been risk in remaining out at night after such ...

— Station Amusements • Lady Barker

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