abiding

English

Pronunciation

• (US) IPA^(key): /əˈbaɪ.dɪŋ/

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• Rhymes: -aɪdɪŋ

Etymology 1

Present participle or participial adjective from abide (verb) +‎ -ing; or, from Middle English participle form of abiden, abyden (“to abide”).

Adjective

abiding (comparative more abiding, superlative most abiding)

1. Continuing or persisting in the same state: lasting, enduring; steadfast. [First attested around 1350 to 1470.]^[1]

   an abiding belief

   a deep and abiding hatred of wealth

   • 2019, Li Huang, James Lambert, “Another Arrow for the Quiver: A New Methodology for Multilingual Researchers”, in Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, →DOI, page 9:

     However, one abiding weakness with such data collection is that people’s beliefs about their speech habits may not necessarily tally with reality.

Synonyms

• diuturnal, prolonged; see also Thesaurus:lasting

Derived terms

• abidingly
• abidingness
• nonabiding
• unabiding

 

Translations

continue

Bulgarian: траен, постоянен (traen, postojanen) Dutch: voortdurend (nl), blijvend (nl) French: continuel (fr), sempiternel (fr) Italian: duraturo (it), persistente (it)

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Vietnamese: (please verify) không thay đổi, (please verify) vĩnh cửu (vi), (please verify) tồn tại mãi mãi

Verb

abiding

1. present participle and gerund of abide

Derived terms

Derived terms

• abiding-place

Etymology 2

From Middle English abydynge, abidynge, -inge [verbal noun of abiden, abyden (“to abide”)],^[2] from Old English abīdung;^[3] or, verbal noun from abide (verb) +‎ -ing.

Noun

abiding (plural abidings)

1. The action of one who abides; the state of an abider. [First attested from around 1150 to 1350.]^[1]
2. (obsolete) An abode. [First attested from around (1350 to 1470) until the early 17th century.]^[1]

References

1. Lesley Brown, editor-in-chief, William R. Trumble and Angus Stevenson, editors (2002), “abiding”, in The Shorter Oxford English Dictionary on Historical Principles, 5th edition, Oxford, New York, N.Y.: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 4.
2. “abīding, ger.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2018, retrieved 16 December 2019.
3. Stratmann, Francis Henry, Bradley, Henry (1891) “abīding, sb.”, in A Middle-English Dictionary Containing Words Used by English Writers from the Twelfth to the Fifteenth Century, new edition, Oxford: Clarendon Press, page 2