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noun

Residence n.

The act or fact of residing, abiding, or dwelling in a place for some continuance of time; as, the residence of an American in France or Italy for a year. "The confessor had often made considerable residences in Normandy."

The place where one resides; an abode; a dwelling or habitation; esp., a settled or permanent home or domicile. "Near the residence of Posthumus." "Johnson took up his residence in London."

(Eng. Eccl. Law) The residing of an incumbent on his benefice; opposed to nonresidence.

The place where anything rests permanently. "But when a king sets himself to bandy against the highest court and residence of all his regal power, he then,... fights against his own majesty and kingship."

Subsidence, as of a sediment. (Obs.)

That which falls to the bottom of liquors; sediment; also, refuse; residuum. (Obs.)

Synonyms: Domiciliation; sojourn; stay; abode; home; dwelling; habitation; domicile; mansion.

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"Residence" Quotes from Famous Books

... disagreeable: a policy summed up in Mr. Langhope's concluding advice that Amherst should take his wife away. Yes—that was wealth's contemptuous answer to every challenge of responsibility: duty, sorrow and disgrace were equally to be evaded by a change of residence, and nothing in life need be faced and fought out while one could pay for a ...

— The Fruit of the Tree • Edith Wharton

... bureau are the following: infant hygiene; health education in schools; sanitation; pure food; registration of physicians and surgeons; registration of drugs, druggists, and drug manufacturers; registration of institutions of public and private relief, correction, detention and residence; organic diseases; quarantine; immigration; labor conditions; disseminating health information; research libraries and equipment; ...

— Civics and Health • William H. Allen

... Cardinal Guise[5] (de Lorraine) accompanied by a number of French bishops and theologians arrived at Trent in November 1562. His arrival strengthened the hands of those Spanish bishops who were insisting on having it defined that the obligation of episcopal residence was /de jure divino/. The question had been adjourned previously at the request of the legates, but with the advent of the discussion on the sacrament of Orders further adjournment was impossible. ...

— History of the Catholic Church from the Renaissance to the French • Rev. James MacCaffrey

... Alaskan readers it is unnecessary to state that these little tales are deduced from every day life, as they are easily recognizable. To those not yet favored by a residence in this Northland I would say that I have written each tale with a well defined purpose. With truthfulness could each one have been more vividly, yes startlingly, told; but I have no wish to unduly disturb my readers. It has been my ...

— The Trail of a Sourdough - Life in Alaska • May Kellogg Sullivan

... Irish landlords, and Irish castles. He was not out of elbows, nor was he an absentee Castle Richmond had no appearance of having been thrown out of its own windows. It was a good, substantial, modern family residence, built not more than thirty years since by the late baronet, with a lawn sloping down to the river, with kitchen gardens and walls for fruit, with ample stables, and a clock over the entrance to the stable yard. It stood ...

— Castle Richmond • Anthony Trollope

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