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Abidance

noun
1.
Acting according to certain accepted standards.  Synonyms: compliance, conformation, conformity.
2.
The act of dwelling in a place.  Synonyms: residence, residency.
3.
The act of abiding (enduring without yielding).





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"Abidance" Quotes from Famous Books



... have ever reigned among us. Which, assuredly, for the honour and advantage which you and I have had thereof, is most grateful to me. Wherefore, lest too long continuance in this way of life might beget some occasion of weariness, and that no man may be able to misconstrue our too long abidance here, and as we have all of us had our day's share of the honour which still remains in me, I should deem it meet, so you be of like mind, that we now go back whence we came: and that the rather that our company, the bruit whereof ...
— The Decameron, Vol. II. • Giovanni Boccaccio
... honour and advantage which you and I have had thereof, is most grateful to me. Wherefore, lest too long continuance in this way of life might beget some occasion of weariness, and that no man may be able to misconstrue our too long abidance here, and as we have all of us had our day's share of the honour which still remains in me, I should deem it meet, so you be of like mind, that we now go back whence we came: and that the rather that our company, the ...
— The Decameron, Vol. II. • Giovanni Boccaccio


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