abiding
continuing without change; enduring; steadfast: an abiding faith.
Origin of abiding
1Other words for abiding
Other words from abiding
- a·bid·ing·ly, adverb
- a·bid·ing·ness, noun
- non·a·bid·ing, adjective
- non·a·bid·ing·ly, adverb
- non·a·bid·ing·ness, noun
- un·a·bid·ing, adjective
- un·a·bid·ing·ly, adverb
- un·a·bid·ing·ness, noun
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How to use abiding in a sentence
Babitz lived in New York for a year and tried Paris and Rome, but she found her abiding inspiration in much-maligned and misunderstood Los Angeles, which she rarely left in the last 50 years of her life.
Eve Babitz, who chronicled and reveled in Hollywood hedonism, dies at 78 | Matt Schudel | December 19, 2021 | Washington PostShe brought forth the Sky and the Sea all by herself, in an attempt to build an ever-sure abiding-place for her future family.
It’s paced differently—yields a bigger pop in exchange for a more abiding patience on the reader’s part.
9 Authors on the Books That Got Them Through a Year of the Pandemic | Annabel Gutterman | March 12, 2021 | TimeShepherds abiding in the field” saw colorful Christmas lights that “shone round about them.
The cops had come up short, unable to find the two men in a sea of several hundred thousand law-abiding people.
How to Get Away With Stealing $2 Million in Jewelry in the Heart of New York | John Surico | November 13, 2014 | THE DAILY BEAST
But at night, on the stand, there would be no abiding satisfaction for him in what he had done in the past.
Most Muslims, like most people everywhere, are peaceable and law-abiding.
The US must ensure its honor abroad by abiding by its commitments and standing with its allies.
Now this setting up of an orderly law-abiding self seems to me to imply that there are impulses which make for order.
Children's Ways | James SullyTo be law-abiding means to acquiesce, if not directly participate, in that conspiracy.
Prison Memoirs of an Anarchist | Alexander BerkmanBy all enabled to behold his glory, is he received as an enduring token of good, yea, as the abiding reality of all good.
The Ordinance of Covenanting | John CunninghamWhat strange abiding-places worlds lighted solely by red suns must be!
Urania | Camille FlammarionThey're bipeds—lizardoid rather than humanoid—and are a fairly intelligent and law-abiding lot.
The Stars, My Brothers | Edmond Hamilton
British Dictionary definitions for abiding
/ (əˈbaɪdɪŋ) /
permanent; enduring: an abiding belief
Derived forms of abiding
- abidingly, adverb
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