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- verb archaic Second-person singular simple present form of
abide .
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Examples
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But thou art not dead: thou livest and abidest forever
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But thou art not dead: thou livest and abidest forever
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“O my son, O Nur al-Din, be the triple divorce incumbent on me, an thou leave me so long as thou abidest in this city; and I will set thee apart a place wherein thou mayst dwell.”
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The other answered, “O bright of face, I will take no rent of thee whilst thou abidest therein.”
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So each of them gave me a dinar and Ahmad said to me, ‘O Shaykh, what while thou abidest in Baghdad thou shalt have of us the like every time thou givest us to drink.’
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Then Gunnar said, “All things that may be will we do for thee, so thou abidest here long; both dominion shall thou have, and our sister freely and unprayed for, whom another man would not get for all his prayers.”
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O my lord, excuse me; I have told thee the truth of my case and the accident which betided me; and now I desire that thou tell me who thou art and why thou abidest here under the earth and why thou hast tethered yonder mare on the brink of the sea.
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And if thou abidest were thou art, he will unhorse thee.
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Sir knight, said Arthur, for what cause abidest thou here, that there may no knight ride this way but if he joust with thee? said the king.
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And Thou abidest in Thyself, but we are tossed about in divers trials.
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