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abide
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Go Set a Watchman
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- The one he could abide; he hated dragging God into it.
p. 38.6abide = tolerate
- Uncle Jack was one of the abiding pleasures of Maycomb.
p. 49.7 *abiding = enduring
- Dr. Finch became a bone man, practiced in Nashville, played the stock market with shrewdness, and by the time he was forty-five he had accumulated enough money to retire and devote all his time to his first and abiding love, Victorian literature, a pursuit that in itself earned him the reputation of being Maycomb County's most learned licensed eccentric.
p. 89.8abiding = remaining or enduring
- She wished she had paid more attention to them, but only one glance down a column of print was enough to tell her a familiar story: same people who were the Invisible Empire, who hated Catholics; ignorant, fear-ridden, red-faced, boorish, law-abiding, one hundred per cent red-blooded Anglo-Saxons, her fellow Americans—trash.
p. 104.8 *law-abiding = law-obeying
- Mr. Stone droned ...a Christian can rid himself of the frustrations of modern living by ...coming to Family Night every Wednesday and bringing a covered dish ...abide with you now and forevermore, Amen.†
p. 96.6
- I believe your man wishes us to sing the Doxology down the line with nothing less than the Church of England, yet he reverses himself—reverses himself—and wants to throw out ...Abide with Me?†
p. 98.2
Definitions:
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(1)
(abide as in: abide by her decision) to tolerate or put up with something
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(abide as in: abide in the forest) to live in a place
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(abide as in: an abiding desire to) to remain or endure or lasting a long time
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(meaning too rare to warrant focus) In classic literature, abide also sometimes references "awaiting someone or something".