abiding

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a·bid·ing

(ə-bī′dĭng)

adj.

Lasting for a long time; enduring: an abiding love of music.

a·bid′ing·ly adv.

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abiding

(əˈbaɪdɪŋ)

adj

permanent; enduring: an abiding belief.

aˈbidingly adv

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a•bid•ing

(əˈbaɪ dɪŋ)

adj.

continuing without change: an abiding faith.

[1250–1300]

a•bid′ing•ly, adv.

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Adj.

abiding - unceasing; "an abiding belief"; "imperishable truths"

enduring, imperishable

lasting, permanent - continuing or enduring without marked change in status or condition or place; "permanent secretary to the president"; "permanent address"; "literature of permanent value"

abiding

adjective enduring, lasting, continuing, remaining, surviving, permanent, constant, prevailing, persisting, persistent, eternal, tenacious, firm, fast, everlasting, unending, unchanging one of my abiding memories of him
passing, brief, temporary, fleeting, short-lived, short, transient, momentary, ephemeral, transitory, evanescent

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abiding

adjective

Existing or remaining in the same state for an indefinitely long time:

continuing, durable, enduring, lasting, long-lasting, long-lived, long-standing, old, perdurable, perennial, permanent, persistent.

Translations

permanent

restante

abiding

[əˈbaɪdɪŋ] ADJ (liter) → permanente, perdurable

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abiding

[əˈbaɪdɪŋ] adj [memory] → durable; [interest, love, passion] → durable
an abiding sense of loyalty → un irréductible sens de la loyauté

Collins English/French Electronic Resource. © HarperCollins Publishers 2005

abiding

adj (liter: = lasting) → unvergänglich; desire also → bleibend

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abiding

[əˈbaɪdɪŋ] adj (memory) → duraturo/a

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Many of these bear with them the smart of real or fancied injuries; many consider themselves expatriated beings, wrongfully exiled from their hereditary homes, and the sepulchres of their fathers, and cherish a deep and abiding animosity against the race that has dispossessed them.

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ONE FINE DAY, not long after Little John had left abiding with the Sheriff and had come back, with his worship's cook, to the merry greenwood, as has just been told, Robin Hood and a few chosen fellows of his band lay upon the soft sward beneath the greenwood tree where they dwelled.

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I had been living as a dry branch, because I was not abiding in the Vine.

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