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Definition of "indwell" [in•dwell]

  • To exist as an animating or divine inner spirit, force, or principle. (verb-intransitive)
  • To be located or implanted inside something. (verb-intransitive)
  • To inhabit or reside within as such a spirit, force, or principle. (verb-transitive)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

Use "indwell" in a sentence
  • "The love that is God ad intra consists precisely in how the Persons mutually inhere or indwell, which is something our minds can perceive only dimly and indirectly, by analogy, even as we are called to participate in it as children of God."
  • "Eventually Satan himself will "indwell" the Antichrist, and will lead the forces of Evil against the forces of Good, led by the descended Christ, in the final confrontation at the Battles of Armageddon."
  • "He will come and not only rest upon us, but indwell us."