Literary notes about reside (AI summary)
In literature, "reside" is employed to convey a sense of dwelling that spans both the literal and the figurative. Authors use it to denote physical habitation—whether referring to tribes living by a river [1], individuals settling in distinct locations [2][3], or communities occupying specific territories [4]—while equally embracing its metaphorical dimensions. The term also suggests the indwelling of abstract qualities, as when wisdom or magic is said to reside within a person or a state [5][6]. This dual usage enriches texts across genres, enabling writers to discuss not only the places where one lives but also the deeper, often symbolic, states in which qualities, ideas, and emotions find their home [7][8].
- Several tribes of the Hul-lu-et-tell Nation reside on this river.
— from The Journals of Lewis and Clark, 1804-1806 by William Clark and Meriwether Lewis - It is, nevertheless, probable that he did; for he had a press there in 1439, and continued to reside in that city for five years afterwards.
— from The Declaration of Independence of the United States of America by Thomas Jefferson - I was already settled at Montmorency when he left it to go and reside at Paris.
— from The Confessions of Jean Jacques Rousseau — Complete by Jean-Jacques Rousseau - Close by the Hermondurians reside the Nariscans, and next to them the Marcomanians and Quadians.
— from Tacitus on Germany by Cornelius Tacitus - All the laws and purposes which guide the creation and government of the Universe reside in Him, the Eternal Word, as their meeting-point.
— from St. Paul's Epistles to the Colossians and Philemon by J. B. Lightfoot - Yet it is certain that the power to produce this delight, does not reside in nature, but in man, or in a harmony of both.
— from Nature by Ralph Waldo Emerson - These “mischiefs” reside not only in animate, but also in inanimate objects.
— from Malay Magic by Walter William Skeat - You likewise say that virtue cannot reside where reason is not.
— from Cicero's Tusculan Disputations by Marcus Tullius Cicero
