All 7 Uses of
abide
in
Mansfield Park
- To anything like a permanence of abode, or limitation of society, Henry Crawford had, unluckily, a great dislike: he could not accommodate his sister in an article of such importance; but he escorted her, with the utmost kindness, into Northamptonshire, and as readily engaged to fetch her away again, at half an hour's notice, whenever she were weary of the place.
Chpt 4abode = a place where one lives
- I would rather abide by my own blunders than by his.
Chpt 6abide = live
- …and derived the immediate advantage of fancying herself obliged to leave her own house, where she had been living a month at her own cost, and take up her abode in theirs, that every hour might be spent in their service, she was, in fact, exceedingly delighted with the project.
Chpt 13abode = home (a place to live)
- A residence of eight or nine years in the abode of wealth and plenty had a little disordered her powers of comparing and judging.
Chpt 37abode = home
- It was the abode of noise, disorder, and impropriety.
Chpt 39 *
- If tenderness could be ever supposed wanting, good sense and good breeding supplied its place; and as to the little irritations sometimes introduced by aunt Norris, they were short, they were trifling, they were as a drop of water to the ocean, compared with the ceaseless tumult of her present abode.
Chpt 39
- Equally formed for domestic life, and attached to country pleasures, their home was the home of affection and comfort; and to complete the picture of good, the acquisition of Mansfield living, by the death of Dr. Grant, occurred just after they had been married long enough to begin to want an increase of income, and feel their distance from the paternal abode an inconvenience.
Chpt 48
Definition:
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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