1571. Golding, Calvin on Ps. lxv. 12. The same fatnesse spreadeth itselfe even into the uninhabited countries.
1647. Cowley, Mistr., Welcome, iii. Hast thou not found each womans breast … Either by Savages possest, Or wild, and uninhabited?
1670. R. Coke, Disc. Trade, 10. The Country too becomes thin and uninhabited.
1711. Addison, Spect., No. 26, ¶ 4. The present War had filled the Church with many of these uninhabited Monuments.
1794. Mrs. Radcliffe, Myst. Udolpho, xxxv. This chateau was uninhabited when St. Aubert and his daughter were in the neighbourhood.
1824. Miss L. M. Hawkins, Annaline, III. 193. The imposing stillness pervading these almost uninhabited regions.
1866. Geo. Eliot, F. Holt, i. We have been too poor to keep servants for uninhabited rooms.
Hence Uninhabitedness.
1727. Bailey (vol. II.), Wildness,… uninhabitedness.
1884. Chr. World, 12 June, 434/4. The solitary uninhabitedness … was something awful in its impressiveness.
