inmacy

English edit

Etymology edit

inmate +‎ -cy

Noun edit

inmacy (uncountable)

(obsolete) The state of being an inmate.
- November 3, 1802, James Somervell, Letter to John R. Eaton, page 43:
  When invited to the house of another friend , could he villainously make use of his inmacy to seduce the partner of that friend's bosom?
- 1853, Dudley Costello, “Our Boarding-House in Brussels”, in The New Monthly Magazine, volume 97, page 31:
  A great many of our inmates, Mr. Wells, have come to the Château de Schaerbeck as invalids, but before a month of their inmacy—if I may use a favourite expression of Mrs. B. — has expired, they have invariably trod the plancher in all the erect majesty of perfect health and strength.
- 1926, United States. Dept. of the Interior, Report of the Department of the Interior, page 10:
  These provisions of law reduced payments to inmates of soldiers' homes are something new in pension legislation and are bound to entail considerable difficulty and much extra work in complying with them, due in large part to the frequent changes made by pensioners from one home to another, and the evident inability to have knowledge as to the status of pensioners in connection with their inmacy in homes from month to month under the monthly payment system of pensions.
- 1927, Pennsylvania. Dept. of Welfare, Bulletin, page 23:
  The short average length of stay would indicate to what extent the almshouse is used as a temporary shelter, and that the permanent inmates form a minority in the almshouse population. The periods of continuous inmacy are somewhat longer for females.
- 1956, Australia. Parliament, The Records of the Proceedings and the Printed Papers:
  At the Census on 30th June, 1955, there were 900 male and 9 female patients in State Mental Institutions. The table hereunder sets out the period of inmacy of the male patients: