Definition of Abide

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Definition of Abide

Abide

To wait; to pause; to delay.

To stay; to continue in a place; to have one's abode; to dwell; to sojourn; -- with with before a person, and commonly with at or in before a place.

To remain stable or fixed in some state or condition; to continue; to remain.

To wait for; to be prepared for; to await; to watch for; as, I abide my time.

To endure; to sustain; to submit to.

To bear patiently; to tolerate; to put up with.

To stand the consequences of; to answer for; to suffer for.

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Abide Quotations

Those who trust to chance must abide by the results of chance.
Calvin Coolidge

I left in love, in laughter, and in truth, and wherever truth, love and laughter abide, I am there in spirit.
Bill Hicks

My address is like my shoes. It travels with me. I abide where there is a fight against wrong.
Mother Jones

Before I can live with other folks I've got to live with myself. The one thing that doesn't abide by majority rule is a person's conscience.
Harper Lee

The one thing that doesn't abide by majority rule is a person's conscience.
Harper Lee

I am not liked as a President by the politicians in office, in the press, or in Congress. But I am content to abide the judgment the sober second thought of the people.
Rutherford B. Hayes

The rewards of virtue alone abide secure.
Sophocles

I know as a manager you have to abide by the chairman's decisions. But his decisions were this team, that team, this player, that player. The chairman is a control freak.
Paul Gascoigne

I abide where there is a fight against wrong.
Mary Harris Jones

I fear it's because religion is man's attempt to reach God, and when he feels he has succeeded, he cannot abide anyone else's claim to have done the same.
Jerry B. Jenkins

Abide Translations

abide in Afrikaans is wag, wag vir, uithou, staan, verwag
abide in Dutch is te wachten staan, afhalen, wachten
abide in German is bleiben, verweilen, ertragen, bleiben, erwarten
abide in Latin is commoror
abide in Portuguese is padecer, esperar

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