All 6 Uses of
abide
in
The Idiot
- Look here, do you intend to take up you abode with us?" he added, glancing once more at the prince's bundle, which evidently gave him no peace.†
Chpt 1.2 *abode = a place where one lives OR lived
- I hope, Gania, you have nothing to say against the prince's taking up his abode in your house?†
Chpt 1.3
- Here she found a delightful little house, just built, and prepared for her reception with great care and taste; and here she took up her abode together with the lady who had accompanied her from her old home.†
Chpt 1.4
- She continued to recite: "Once there came a vision glorious, Mystic, dreadful, wondrous fair; Burned itself into his spirit, And abode for ever there!†
Chpt 2.7
- Vera related how Keller had taken up his abode with them on the previous evening.†
Chpt 2.11
- My dear fellow, my house is simply a hell just now, a sort of sphinx has taken up its abode there.†
Chpt 2.11
Definitions:
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(1)
(abide as in: abide by her decision) to tolerate or put up with something
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(2)
(abide as in: abide in the forest) to live in a place
or more rarely: to live with someone or something -
(3)
(abide as in: an abiding desire to) to remain or endure or lasting a long time
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(4)
(meaning too rare to warrant focus) In classic literature, abide also sometimes references "awaiting someone or something".