abiding

[ uh-bahy-ding ]

/ əˈbaɪ dɪŋ /

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adjective

continuing without change; enduring; steadfast: an abiding faith.

OTHER WORDS FOR abiding

unending, unchanging, unshakable.

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Origin of abiding

Middle English word dating back to 1250–1300; see origin at abide, -ing²

OTHER WORDS FROM abiding

a·bid·ing·ly, adverba·bid·ing·ness, nounnon·a·bid·ing, adjectivenon·a·bid·ing·ly, adverb

non·a·bid·ing·ness, nounun·a·bid·ing, adjectiveun·a·bid·ing·ly, adverbun·a·bid·ing·ness, noun

Words nearby abiding

Abiathar, Abib, abidance, abide, abide by, abiding, Abidjan, Abie, abient, à bientôt, abietate

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 Post
She brought forth the Sky and the Sea all by herself, in an attempt to build an ever-sure abiding-place for her future family.
Gaia, the Scientist - Issue 99: Universality|Hope Jahren|April 7, 2021|Nautilus
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|Time
Shepherds abiding in the field” saw colorful Christmas lights that “shone round about them.
Keep Christmas Commercialized!|P. J. O’Rourke|December 6, 2014|DAILY BEAST

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|DAILY BEAST
But at night, on the stand, there would be no abiding satisfaction for him in what he had done in the past.
The Stacks: John Coltrane’s Mighty Musical Quest|Nat Hentoff|October 18, 2014|DAILY BEAST
Most Muslims, like most people everywhere, are peaceable and law-abiding.
Can We Lose the Violent Muslim Cliché?|Jay Parini|October 12, 2014|DAILY BEAST
The US must ensure its honor abroad by abiding by its commitments and standing with its allies.
Rick Perry: America’s Next Top Strategist?|James Poulos|September 20, 2014|DAILY BEAST
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 Sully
To be law-abiding means to acquiesce, if not directly participate, in that conspiracy.
Prison Memoirs of an Anarchist|Alexander Berkman
By 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 Cunningham
What strange abiding-places worlds lighted solely by red suns must be!
Urania|Camille Flammarion
They'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

abiding

/ (əˈbaɪdɪŋ) /

adjective

permanent; enduringan abiding belief

Derived forms of abiding

abidingly, adverb

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