abide

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He couldn't abide their religious intolerance.

I don't remember whose rule this is, but we abide by it.  (source) Jenny Han, To All the Boys I've Loved Before, 2014

God couldn't abide faithlessness, Dad said.  (source) Tara Westover, Educated, 2018

If there's one thing that Connor can't abide, it's an Unwind who defends unwinding.  (source) Neal Shusterman, Unwind, 2007

This is a time when citizens should be most loyal. Most law-abiding.  (source) Jeanne DuPrau, The City of Ember, 2003

He says he abides in Shaker Law.  (source) Robert Newton Peck, A Day No Pigs Would Die, 1972

I have abided by your wishes for so long… and it pains me to call, but I must speak to you.  (source) Dan Brown, The Da Vinci Code, 2003

For never have I beheld thee in glorious battle ere this, yet now hast thou far outstripped all men in thy hardihood, seeing thou abidest my far-shadowing spear.†  (source) Homer, The Iliad, -850 B.C.

Demosthenes wasn't wrong to suspect that the Warsaw Pact was not abiding by the terms of the League.  (source) Orson Scott Card, Ender's Game, 1977

But by strife man shall win of the bearers of souls, Of the children of men, compelled by need, The abiders on earth, the place made all ready, The stead where his body laid fast on his death-bed Shall sleep after feast.†  (source) Author Unknown, Beowulf, 1895

He, Rufus Buckley, former district attorney and symbol of the highest standards of law abidance, morality, and ethical conduct, was being hauled away like a common criminal.†  (source) John Grisham, Sycamore Row, 2014

Over this scene, however, lay an abidingly somber cloud, a presence oppressive and stifling which polluted the very wellsprings of her childhood and youth.†  (source) William Styron, Sophie's Choice, 1976

She would not only abide, but enjoyed when her grandson would interrupt polite conversation to question the standing of the church or the ruling class.  (source) Amor Towles, A Gentleman in Moscow, 2016

The song is called "Abide With Me."

God is love, and those who abide in love abide in God, and God abides in them.†  (source) 1 John 4:16 (NSRV)

"Abide with Me" was sung, then "Last Post" was played, a little shakily, by a bugler from the Scouts band, followed by two minutes of silence and a rifle volley fired by the Militia.  (source) Margaret Atwood, The Blind Assassin, 2000

If my father limited his handyman skills to his own humble abode, that would be fine.  (source) Firoozeh Dumas, Funny in Farsi, 2003

I preferred to think that the rooms we searched were more haphazard and less revealing than Owen imagined—after all, they were supposed to be the monastic cells of transient scholars; they were something between a nest and a hotel room, they were not natural abodes, and what we found there was a random disorder and a depressing sameness.†  (source) John Irving, A Prayer for Owen Meany, 1989

One generation passeth away, and another generation cometh; but the earth abideth forever...The sun also ariseth, and the sun goeth down, and hasteth to the place where he arose...The wind goeth toward the south, and turneth about unto the north; it whirleth about continually, and the wind returneth again according to his circuits...All the rivers run into the sea; yet the sea is not full; unto the place from whence the rivers come, thither they return again.†  (source) Ernest Hemingway, The Sun Also Rises, 1926

The pass allowed a reduction in her fare only, and even that had to be approved, so we were made to abide in a kind of limbo until white people we would never see, in offices we would never visit, signed and stamped and mailed the pass back to Momma.  (source) Maya Angelou, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, 1969

The said dragon abides there,  (source) Author Unknown, Beowulf, 1895

And women there are who become sad when the word goes over the fire of how the Evil Spirit came to select that valley for an abiding-place.  (source) Jack London, The Call of the Wild, 1903

May each drop of it be a weapon and a shield against the presence of all evil and may it be a cleansing and blessing of this humble abode.  (source) August Wilson, The Piano Lesson, 1990

The Knurlcarathn were the stoneworkers' clan and, in men and material goods, they had no equal, for every other clan depended upon their expertise for the tunneling and the building of their abodes, and even the Ingeitum needed them to mine the ore for their smiths.†  (source) Christopher Paolini, Brisingr, 2008

My mind abideth strong To know the roots, how low soe'er they be, Which grew to Oedipus.†  (source) Sophocles, Oedipus King of Thebes, -429 B.C.

"Faith of Our Fathers," "A Mighty Fortress Is Our God," "Rock of Ages," "Abide With Me."  (source) Olive Ann Burns, Cold Sassy Tree, 1984

Our love is deep and abiding.

Love abides.†

Roman, thirty-two, inquisitive and outspoken, has a doctorate in biology from Stanford and an abiding distrust of conventional wisdom.  (source) Jon Krakauer, Into the Wild, 1996

An abiding interest in animals led him to the zoo business.  (source) Yann Martel, Life of Pi, 2001

…we feel the need to lean on something that abides, something that will never play us false–a reality, an absolute and everlasting truth.  (source) Aldous Huxley, Brave New World, 1932

The devastation was great during the Bad Times-and these came more often in precisely plotted spasms, shorter remissions, more terrible consequences after each attack-but the Earth abided and repaired itself as best it could.  (source) Dan Simmons, Hyperion, 1989

I would no longer in the bed abide,  (source) Geoffrey Chaucer, The Canterbury Tales, 1350

And now I repeat the words of the Apostle Paul, and 'now abideth faith, hope and charity, these three; but the greatest of these is charity.'  (source) Maya Angelou, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, 1969

All my campaign of self-sabotage had earned me was an unwinnable feud with Shelley and the deep and abiding resentment of my coworkers—who, let's face it, were going to resent me anyway, because no matter how many displays I knocked over or customers I short-changed, one day I was going to inherit a sizable chunk of the company, and they were not.  (source) Ransom Riggs, Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children, 2011

Here no wind beats roughly, and neither rain nor snow can fall; but it abides in everlasting sunshine and in a great peacefulness of light,  (source) Homer, The Odyssey, -850 B.C.

You couldn't understand Klotz's behavior without taking into account his nationality, that his predicament that day was uniquely the predicament of someone who had a deep and abiding respect for authority.  (source) Malcolm Gladwell, Outliers, 2008

A year later, the shock has worn off, but a sense of failure and shame persists, deep and abiding.  (source) Jhumpa Lahiri, The Namesake, 2003

Uncle Jack was one of the abiding pleasures of Maycomb.  (source) Harper Lee, Go Set a Watchman, 2015