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Indwelling

Indwelling \In"dwell`ing\, n. Residence within, as in the heart.

The personal indwelling of the Spirit in believers.
--South.

Indwelling

Indwell \In"dwell`\, v. t. & i. [imp. & p. p. Indwelt; p. pr. & vb. n. Indwelling.] To dwell in; to abide within; to remain in possession.

The Holy Ghost became a dove, not as a symbol, but as a constantly indwelt form.
--Milman.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
indwelling

"act of residing," late 14c. (Wyclif's translation of Latin inhabitatio), present participle of obsolete indwell, from in (adv.) + dwell (v.). He also used indweller for Latin inhabitans.

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indwelling

Etymology 1 n. A dwelling within, especially lodgement or habitation in the mind or soul. Etymology 2

a. 1 implanted within the body 2 existing as an inner principle; inherent

WordNet
indwelling

adj. existing or residing as an inner activating spirit or force or principle; "an indwelling divinity"; "an indwelling goodness"

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Indwelling

Indwelling was a Technical death metal band from Arizona. The band formed soon after the demise of the Christian hardcore band, Overcome, which all members participated in at one point or another. The band disbanded probably around 2004, but in 2010 Overcome reunited and are still active.

Usage examples of "indwelling".

Both these depend upon the existence of that principle of vegetal life and generation by which the body becomes an organism aware of pleasure and pain: this principle it was that made the body a thing of bile and bitterness, and thus it leads the indwelling soul-phase to corresponding states--churlish and angry under stress of environment--so that being wronged itself, it tries, as we may put it, to return the wrong upon its surroundings, and bring them to the same condition.

Jesuit, suffered at age twenty-five a sudden and dire spiritual decline in which his basic faith in the innate indwelling goodness of men like spontaneously combusted and disappeared and for no apparent or dramatic reason.

As this faintly lurid light faded out and left the countenance in its normal state it became more heavy and earthy in its expression than Van Berg would have deemed possible, and it ever remained a mystery to him how features so delicate, beautiful, and essentially feminine could combine to show so clearly that the indwelling nature was largely alloyed with clay.

He disliked having to leave the indwelling catheter for urine disposal, but there was no way out of that for now.

The Spirit of God indwells us, but this indwelling doesn't make us gods.