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Abiding   /əbˈaɪdɪŋ/   Listen
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.






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








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"Abiding" Quotes from Famous Books



... they are fundamentally self-reliant. Each demands to know why he should do a thing before he does it. This is, I think, the great link between two peoples in many ways very different; and they who ardently desire abiding friendship between our two countries will do well never to lose sight of it. Any sapping of this quality of self-reliance, or judging for oneself, in either country, any undermining of the basis ...
— Defenders of Democracy • Militia of Mercy

... above the bobbins and carders, and weary ears throbbed even at night with the tumult of the looms. Amherst, however, felt no sensational resentment at the contrast. He had lived too much with ugliness and want not to believe in human nature's abiding need of their opposite. He was glad there was room for such beauty in the world, and sure that its purpose was an ameliorating one, if only it could be used as a ...
— The Fruit of the Tree • Edith Wharton

... or the consciousness of it be imparted to Intelligence by contact with the essentially non- intelligent ahamkra. Nor can we accept what you say about 'manifestation.' Neither the ahamkra, you say, nor Intelligence is really a knowing subject, but the ahamkra manifests consciousness abiding within itself (within the ahamkra), as the mirror manifests the image abiding within it. But the essentially non-intelligent ahamkra evidently cannot 'manifest' the self-luminous Self. As has been said 'That the non-intelligent ahamkra should manifest the self-luminous ...
— The Vedanta-Sutras with the Commentary by Ramanuja - Sacred Books of the East, Volume 48 • Trans. George Thibaut

... is to lead the devout Bible-student into the Green Pastures of the Good Shepherd, thence to the Banqueting House of the King, and thence to the service of the Vineyard, is one of the abiding legacies of Mr. Hudson Taylor to the Church. In the power of an evident unction from the Holy One, he has been enabled herein to unfold in simplest language the deep truth of the believer's personal union with The Lord, which ...
— Union And Communion - or Thoughts on the Song of Solomon • J. Hudson Taylor

... brought the two girls nearer and nearer together; and Peggy found herself yielding more and more—often against her own judgment—to the fascination of the lawless girl, who on her part seemed curiously drawn to the simple, downright, law-abiding freshman. ...
— Peggy • Laura E. Richards


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