Abide vs Obligation - What's the difference?
abide | obligation |
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*:Abide you here with the asse.
(label) To stay; to continue in a place; to remain stable or fixed in some state or condition; to be left.
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*:Let every man abide in the same calling wherein he was called.
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*:Let the damsel abide with us a few days.
(label) To endure; to remain; to last.
*1998 , Narrator ((Sam Elliot)), The Big Lebowski (film):
*:"The Dude abides ."
(label) To stand ready for; to await for someone; watch for.
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*:Allas sayd she that euer I sawe yow / but he that suffred vpon the crosse for alle mankynde he be vnto yow good conduyte and saufte / and alle the hole felauship / Ryght soo departed Launcelot / & fond his felauship that abode his comyng / and so they mounted on their horses / and rode thorou the strete of Camelot
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*:Bonds and afflictions abide me.
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(label) To endure without yielding; to withstand; await defiantly; to encounter; to persevere.
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(label) To await submissively; accept without question; submit to.
*William Shakespeare, Richard II
*:To abide thy kingly doom.
(label) To bear patiently; to tolerate; to put up with; stand.
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*:She could not abide Master Shallow.
(label) To pay for; to stand the consequences of; to answer for; to suffer for; to atone for.
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English irregular verbs
The act of binding oneself by a social, legal, or moral tie to someone.
A social, legal, or moral requirement, duty, contract, or promise that compels someone to follow or avoid a particular course of action.
A course of action imposed by society, law, or conscience by which someone is bound or restricted.
(legal) A legal agreement stipulating a specified payment or action; the document containing such agreement.
* 1668 December 19, , “Mr.'' Alexander Seaton ''contra'' Menzies” in ''The Deci?ions of the Lords of Council & Se??ion I (Edinburgh, 1683),
As a verb abide
is .As a noun obligation is
the act of binding oneself by a social, legal, or moral tie to someone.abide
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Usage notes
* (bear patiently) Used in the negative form can't abide is used to indicate strong dislike.See also
* dwell * live * reside * stayReferences
obligation
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(wikipedia obligation)Noun
(en noun)- X shall be entitled to subcontract its obligation to provide the Support Services. <
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- The Pupil after his Pupillarity, had granted a Di?charge to one of the Co-tutors, which did extingui?h the whole Debt of that Co-tutor, and con?equently of all the re?t, they being all correi debendi , lyable by one individual Obligation , which cannot be Di?charged as to one, and ?tand as to all the re?t.
