Both Uses of
inhabitant
in
The Declaration of Independence
- For protecting them, by a mock Trial, from punishment for any Murders which they should commit on the Inhabitants of these States:
*inhabitants = people (who live in a particular place)
- He has excited domestic insurrections amongst us, and has endeavoured to bring on the inhabitants of our frontiers, the merciless Indian Savages, whose known rule of warfare, is an undistinguished destruction of all ages, sexes and conditions.†
Definition:
a person who lives in a particular place