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verb

Abide v. t.

1.

To wait for; to be prepared for; to await; to watch for; as, I abide my time. "I will abide the coming of my lord." Note: ((Obs.), with a personal object. "Bonds and afflictions abide me."

2.

To endure; to sustain; to submit to. "(Thou) shalt abide her judgment on it."

3.

To bear patiently; to tolerate; to put up with. "She could not abide Master Shallow."

4.

Note: (Confused with aby to pay for. See Aby.) To stand the consequences of; to answer for; to suffer for. "Dearly I abide that boast so vain."

Abide v. i. (past & past part. abode, formerly abid; pres. part. abiding)

1.

To wait; to pause; to delay. (Obs.)

2.

To stay; to continue in a place; to have one's abode; to dwell; to sojourn; with with before a person, and commonly with at or in before a place. "Let the damsel abide with us a few days."

3.

To remain stable or fixed in some state or condition; to continue; to remain. "Let every man abide in the same calling."

Followed by by:

To abide by.

(a)

To stand to; to adhere; to maintain. "The poor fellow was obstinate enough to abide by what he said at first."

(b)

To acquiesce; to conform to; as, to abide by a decision or an award.

adjective

Abiding adj. Continuing; lasting.

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"Abiding" Quotes from Famous Books

... again, up the mighty cliffs and through the mist driving cloud-like over them, the better fitted for his journey forward here; the better fitted, it may be, even for that other dread journey of one irrevocable moment—the last he shall ever take—to his abiding-place among ...

— Rambles Beyond Railways; - or, Notes in Cornwall taken A-foot • Wilkie Collins

... refuge from the Reform Broom of Molly the housemaid. And then, the tiny insect, the ant—that living, silent monitor to unregarding men—doth it not make its own galleries, build with toilsome art its own abiding place? Does not the mole scratch its own chamber—the carrion kite build its own nest! Shall cuckoos and Members of Parliament alone ...

— Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 1, Complete • Various

... of the Marshal de Retz they sent to bring forth Margaret of Douglas and Maud Lindesay out of the White Tower, where they had been abiding. Margaret had gone to bed, and, as was her custom, Maud Lindesay sat awhile by her side. For so far as they could they kept to the good and kindly traditions of Castle Thrieve. It seemed somehow to bring them ...

— The Black Douglas • S. R. Crockett

... allied by sympathy and blood relationship to many of the smugglers themselves, it was almost impossible for the representatives of the Crown to make any steady progress in their work. We all know that when a number of even average law-abiding people get together, that crowd somehow tends towards becoming a mob. Each person, so to speak, forfeits his own individuality, that becomes merged into the personality and character of the mob, which all the time is being impelled ...

— King's Cutters and Smugglers 1700-1855 • E. Keble Chatterton

... Hoosier School-Master, or the very rare and quaint, bright prattle of Helen's Babies. In connection with this last let us very seriously inquire what this real child has done that Literature should so persistently refuse to give him an abiding welcome? Since for ages this question seems to have been left unasked, it may be timely now to propound it. Why not the real child in Literature? The real child is good enough (we all know he is bad enough) to command our admiring attention and most lively interest in real life, ...

— Complete Works of James Whitcomb Riley • James Whitcomb Riley

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