单词 | abidance |
释义 | abidance|əˈbaɪdəns| [f. abide v. + -ance. An instance of the Romance vb. -affix -ance:—L. -antia, added to an Eng. vb. in imitation of such words as subsidence, observance, continuance, which are adoptions of actual or possible Fr. words.] 1. Abiding, dwelling, continuance.
1647Fuller Hy. War v. xi. 249 The Christians had no longer abidance in the holy hill of Palestine. 1668Culpeper & Cole tr. Bartholinus Anat. ii. vi. 101 From its abidance there, the blood would not be perfected but become adust. 1755S. Walker Sermons vi, The Days of Man are shrunk into the Abidance of a Moment. 1837J. H. Newman Prophetical Office 102 It considers doubt incompatible with practical abidance in the truth. 2. Continuance in a submissive or docile manner by; conformity to.
1875Helps Essays 179 A judicious abidance by rules, and holding to the results of experience, are good. |

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