Definition of "habitation"

And there have been Common-wealths that having no more Territory, than hath served them for habitation, have neverthelesse, not onely maintained, but also encreased their Power, partly by the labour of trading from one place to another, and partly by selling the Manifactures, whereof the Materials were brought in from other places.

1651, Thomas Hobbes, chapter 24, in Leviathan, or The Matter, Forme, & Power of a Common-wealth Ecclesiasticall and Civill, London: […] [William Wilson] for Andrew Crooke, […]

Witness this new-made world, another HeavenFrom Heaven-gate not far, founded in viewOn the clear hyaline, the glassy sea;Of amplitude almost immense, with starsNumerous, and every star perhaps a worldOf destined habitation […]

1667, John Milton, “Book VII”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], […]; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873,

The few miserable hovels that showed some marks of human habitation, were now of still rarer occurrence; and at length, as we began to ascend an uninterrupted swell of moorland, they totally disappeared.

1817 December 31 (indicated as 1818), [Walter Scott], chapter X, in Rob Roy. […], volumes (please specify |volume=I to III), Edinburgh: […] James Ballantyne and Co. for Archibald Constable and Co. […]; London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown

Now, however, the windows in the houses began one by one to be lit up, giving a greater sense of habitation and humanity.

1907, G. K. Chesterton, chapter 12, in The Man Who Was Thursday‎

And as imagination bodies forthThe forms of things unknown, the poet’s penTurns them to shapes and gives to airy nothingA local habitation and a name.

c. 1595–1596 (date written), William Shakespeare, “A Midsommer Nights Dreame”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies: Published According to the True Originall Copies (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, [Act V, scene i]

Ye shall kindle no fire throughout your habitations upon the sabbath day.

1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], Exodus 35:3

Mrs Deborah, having disposed of the child according to the will of her master, now prepared to visit those habitations which were supposed to conceal its mother.

1749, Henry Fielding, The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling, volume I, London: A[ndrew] Millar, […], book 6

How gay the Habitations that adornThis fertile Valley! Not a House but seemsTo give assurance of content within;

c. 1806–1809 (date written), William Wordsworth, “Book the Fifth. The Pastor.”, in The Excursion, being a Portion of The Recluse, a Poem, London: […] Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, […], published 1814, page 219

And this is Shanty Town, my friend. ¶ Even here the children laugh in the narrow lanes that run between these tragic habitations.

1948, Alan Paton, chapter 10, in Cry, the Beloved Country, New York: Scribner, published 1987