Home › Words › H › habitancehabitancehabitance means dwelling; abode; residence.EtymologyOld French habitance.noundwelling; abode; residencee.g.“What art thou , man , ( if man at all thou art , ) That here in desert hast thine habitance” — 1590, Edmund Spenser, “(please specify the book)”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:Definitions & examples from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 3.0).