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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
abiding
adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a long-term/abiding interest (=an interest you have had for a long time)
▪ She has had a long-term interest in antiques.
an abiding/enduring/lasting memory (=that you will always have)
▪ The children's abiding memory of their father is of his patience and gentleness.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
memory
▪ An abiding memory of Baden is the harmony of the old town.
▪ His other abiding memory is a harrowing one.
▪ One abiding memory for me was on my first visit to his home in 1965.
▪ And the abiding memory of the eighties must be of the greatest achievement, the enormous increase in passenger traffic.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ an abiding belief in the power of justice
▪ As a boy he had had an abiding curiosity about how things worked.
▪ His father had an abiding interest in nature.
▪ She had a basic and abiding belief in democratic systems.
▪ The internal security of his country was the President's other abiding concern.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ All thoroughly unlawful but there is a limit to public patience when the law- abiding feel they are not protected by officialdom.
▪ And there were in the same country shepherds abiding in the field, keeping watch over their flock by night.
▪ But her abiding passions were medieval history and archaeology which she continued to study all her life.
▪ His other abiding memory is a harrowing one.
▪ It is guiding principle, abiding truth.
▪ This leaves no doubt as to the universal and abiding significance of the Kingdom concept.
▪ Why should law abiding citizens pay extra?
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Abiding

Abide \A*bide"\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Abode, formerly Abid; p. pr. & vb. n. Abiding.] [AS. [=a]b[=i]dan; pref. [=a]- (cf. Goth. us-, G. er-, orig. meaning out) + b[=i]dan to bide. See Bide.]

  1. To wait; to pause; to delay. [Obs.]
    --Chaucer.

  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.
    --Gen. xxiv. 55.

  3. To remain stable or fixed in some state or condition; to continue; to remain. Let every man abide in the same calling. --1 Cor. vii. 20. [1913 Webster] Followed by by: To abide by.

    1. To stand to; to adhere; to maintain.

      The poor fellow was obstinate enough to abide by what he said at first.
      --Fielding.

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

Abiding

Abiding \A*bid"ing\, a. Continuing; lasting.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
abiding

late 14c., "enduring," present participle adjective from abide (v.).\n

Wiktionary
abiding

  1. continue or persist in the same state; lasting; enduring. (First attested around 1350 to 1470.)(R:SOED5: page=4) n. 1 The action of one abides; the state of an abider. (First attested from around 1150 to 1350.)(R:SOED5: page=4) 2 (context obsolete English) An abode. (First attested from around (1350 to 1470) until the early 17th century.) v

  2. (present participle of abide English)

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WordNet
abiding

adj. unceasing; "an abiding belief"; "imperishable truths" [syn: enduring, imperishable]

Usage examples of "abiding".

I have heard tell of thee: thou art abiding the turn of the days up at the castle yonder, as others have done before thee.

I am to kill him over again, there is nothing for it but our abiding with him for the next few hours at least.

But his thought stayed not there, but carried him into the days when he was abiding in desire of the love that he won at last, and lost so speedily.

Yet how should he not go to Utterbol with the Damsel abiding deliverance of him there: and yet again, if they met there and were espied on, would not that ruin everything for her as well as for him?

So shall we go forth ere it be known that the brother of the Lord of the Porte is abiding at the Lamb.

For I spake with thee, it is nigh two years agone, when thou wert abiding the coming of our Lady in the castle yonder But now I see of thee that thou art brighter-faced, and mightier of aspect than aforetime, and it is in my mind that the Lady of Abundance must have loved thee and holpen thee, and blessed thee with some great blessing.

The wise merchant who led thee unto me is abiding thine homecoming that he may have of thee that which thou promisedst to him.

I made for thee, and one also for me, while I was abiding thee after the battle, and my love and my hope is woven into it.

He was almost convinced that reducing a tree to lumber expunged whatever might be abiding within when he saw the long, hooked tongue emerge from the wall behind the bed.

The monstrosities abiding within the smaller man could not molest him or they would certainly already have done so.

People would always fight, argue, bicker and disagree, whether influenced by abiding Interlopers or not.

It took time for them to respond to the commands and directives of those abiding within them.

Joining in the conversation also helped to take her mind off the nightmarish phantasm that was now abiding somewhere within her unsettled self.

Intellectual-Principle, the veritable, abiding and not fluctuant since not taking intellectual quality from outside itself.

But whatever may be the phases of the arts, there is the abiding principle of symmetry in the body of man, that goes erect, like an upright soul.