Word Finder - abiding

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To endure without yielding; to withstand; await defiantly; to encounter; to persevere.

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The old oak tree abides the wind endlessly.

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To bear patiently; to tolerate; to put up with; stand.

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To pay for; to stand the consequences of; to answer for; to suffer for; to atone for.

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To wait in expectation.

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To pause; to delay.

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To stay; to continue in a place; to remain stable or fixed in some state or condition; to be left.

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To have one's abode; to dwell; to reside; to sojourn.

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To endure; to remain; to last.

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To stand ready for; to await for someone; watch for.

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To endure or undergo a hard trial or a task; to stand up under.

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To await submissively; accept without question; submit to.

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Continuing or persisting in the same state: lasting, enduring; steadfast.

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a deep and abiding hatred of wealth

It is under the abiding influence of the Holy Ghost, and therefore cannot err in matters of faith.

The rest of Palermo was soon granted; the Semitic capital became the abiding head of Sicily.

The absence of water and of large trees is one of the most abiding impressions of the traveller.

The abiding interest in Korner is patriotic and political rather than literary.

The assurance of its own unique value that such wisdom involved they held to be an abiding possession for those who had attained it; 3 and without this assurance no act could be truly wise or virtuous.

In that manner his influence, as represented by the text of many a statute regulating the relations between Austria and Hungary, is one of an abiding character.

The abiding result of his tutorship is a code of carefully graduated moral lessons - the Fables, the Dialogues of the Dead (a series of imaginary conversations between departed heroes), and finally Telemaque, where the adventures of the son of Ulysses in search of a father are made into a political novel with a purpose.

As an exegete and biblical critic no less than as a grammarian he has left his abiding mark.

The most important fact in his history is his confession, recorded by Orosius, that he saw the inability of his countrymen to rear a civilized or abiding kingdom, and that consequently his aim should be to build on Roman foundations and blend the two nations into one.

Essential modifications could not, of course, be at once effected or even indicated in a power whose life-blood is tradition, and whose main strength has always lain in calmly abiding the issue of events and in temporizing.

On the other hand, at Messina there were few or none, and we hear of both Saracen and Greek villeins, the latter doubtless abiding as they were in Saracen times.

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Her whole life, public and private, was an abiding lesson in the paramount importance of character.

One of my abiding childhood memories is sitting in front of the television with a plate of orange iced cupcakes, watching Scooby-Doo.

At first, he created them simply to give to family and friends and to express his artistic talents and abiding faith.

There is also no doubt that these ladies have a deep and abiding passion for the game of American football.

Copyright infringement is an often fuzzy topic among even the most law abiding citizen.

And yet, notwithstanding all this, and partly because of all this, real and distinct Norman influence has been far more extensive and far more abiding in England than it has been in Sicily.

The impression made by him in parliament is in some danger of being forgotten, because he was not instrumental in carrying any great measure that might serve as an abiding memorial.

Henry was too young to have carried away any abiding impressions, yet throughout his life his character, dress and bearing were far more Spanish than French.

It may be said generally that Catharism formed the abiding background of medieval heresy.

But Anabaptism was not to remain an abiding force on the continent; and though colonies of its exiles settled in England, they did not produce the Congregationalism which sprang up there under Elizabeth.

It will then apply the tests thus gained to the narratives special to this Gospel; and point out the book's special difficulties and limits, and its abiding appeal and greatness.

Scott's The Fourth Gospel (1906) gives a lucid, critical and religiously tempered account of the Gospel's ideas, aims, affinities, difficulties and abiding significance.

He regarded the abiding life of Rome as "the central truth of European history," the bond of its unity, and he undertook his History of Sicily (1891-1894) partly because it illustrated this unity.

In this idea Paul also shared, but he carried the matter farther than most of his contemporaries and saw in the Spirit the abiding power and ground of the Christian life.

The opening pages of his commentaries on the Iliad and the Odyssey dwell with enthusiasm on the abiding influence of Homer on the literature of Greece.

But the abiding value of his work lies in his preservation of facts in Roman history, religion, antiquities and language, which but for him might have perished.

His mind was cultivated; he was a discriminating patron of literature, and Westminster Abbey is an abiding memorial of his artistic taste.

Owing to his pure biblical style he had an abiding influence on subsequent liturgical writers.

The attack on the empire had, however, no abiding results.

As a historian, indeed, he left no abiding work; the multiplicity of his interests prevented him from concentrating on any one subject.

She is not mentioned in Homer, although the hearth is recognized as a place of refuge for suppliants; this seems to show that her worship was not universally acknowledged at the time of the Homeric poems. In post-Homeric religion she is one of the twelve Olympian deities, but, as the abiding goddess of the household, she never leaves Olympus.

These poorer people - who were not, however, "poor whites" - developed an abiding hostility towards the oligarchy.

The journey to Italy made by the king in 1154 was the precursor of five other expeditions which engaged his main energies for thirty years, during which the subjugation of the peninsula was the central and abiding aim of his policy.

In the numberless transitions that, whilst connecting, separate the spell and the prayer we observe as the accompaniment of every mood from extreme imperiousness to extreme humility an abiding will and desire to help the action out.

For with the same thou hast anointed priests, kings, and prophets and martyrs with this thy chrism, perfected by thee, 0 Lord, blessed, abiding within our bowels in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ."

History is thus represented by Hegel, for example, as the realization of the idea of freedom, or rather as the reconciliation of individual freedom and the play of cultured interests with the stable objectivity of law and an abiding consciousness of the greater whole in which we move.

The bliss to which the soul attains, by the extinction of desire, in the supreme home, is not absorption in the Lord, but union with Him in abiding individuality.

And he who does not speak of God may abide in Him if he is abiding in love.

That includes abiding by the highest standards of human rights set by the European Convention of Human Rights.

He possessed a deep knowledge of France and her history, an abiding affection for the Commonwealth and especially the USA.

The Tories ' abiding belief that taxes are wrong springs from a moral certainty that the state itself does moral harm.

Common graces and moral virtues, these are of no long continuance; the soul must have an abiding work, an immortal work.

This abiding fascination gives us a unique platform from which to contribute to commercial architecture.

Why permanently penalize the vast majority of law abiding motorists for the sake of a few speed merchants?

The basilisk's eyes are not reptilian but human, their expression an ancient and abiding love.

Indeed, the cornerstone of State sovereignty provides an abiding subtext to assertions of rights of transit.

It is a measure of the abiding affection for this apparently throwaway pop group that they are still well remembered nine years on.

God can be personal and doubtless is (though he has no Non-ego to define himself against) through contrast of passing conscious states with the abiding Ego.