Read full poem →And breath by breath subsiding;
For love has no abiding,
But dies before the kiss;
Dictionary Entry
To endure without yielding; to withstand; await defiantly; to encounter; to persevere.
In a Sentence
“The old oak tree abides the wind endlessly.”
Origin
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Common Phrases
citizens abidinginterest abiding. abidingplace abidingfaith abidingcitizen abidingabiding law
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Poetry examples for “abiding”
Excerpts from the ReadingWillow English Library collection.
Read full poem →Ye flaming Ethers thin,
Condensing till the abiding sweetness win
One sweet drop more;
Read full poem →Ye flaming Ethers thin,
Condensing till the abiding sweetness win
One sweet drop more;
Read full poem →April, 1852. He was a successful merchant at Brookfield Centre.
Always an industrious, law abiding citizen.
Read full poem →Sadlier than those who wept in Babylon,
Whose Zion was a still abiding hope.
Read full poem →IF ever joy leave
An abiding sting of sorrow,
So befell it on the morrow
Read full poem →Shade-flecked by a leafy tree,
Or in fixed thought abiding
By the foam-fingered sea.
Read full poem →I abide and abide and tarry the tide,
And with abiding speed well ye may.
Thus do I abide I wot alway,
Read full poem →Race of the soil, ready for conflict--race of the conquering march;
(No more credulity's race, abiding-temper'd race,)
Race henceforth owning no law but the law of itself,