All 3 Uses of
abide
in
Middlemarch
- I can't abide to see her reading to herself.†
Chpt 1 *
- "I can't abide your losing the money you've scraped together for Alfred."†
Chpt 3
- By that delightful morning when the hay-ricks at Stone Court were scenting the air quite impartially, as if Mr. Raffles had been a guest worthy of finest incense, Dorothea had again taken up her abode at Lowick Manor.†
Chpt 6 *
Definitions:
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(abide as in: abide in the forest) to live in a place
or more rarely: to live with someone or something
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(abide as in: abide by her decision) to tolerate or put up with something