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Enduring awful racket, a jumbo going over?
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abiding
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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
late 14c., "enduring," present participle adjective from abide (v.).\n
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
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 .] To wait; to pause; to delay. [Obs.] --Chaucer. To stay; to ...
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.