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Abided vs Abode - What's the difference?

abided | abode |

As verbs the difference between abided and abode

is that abided is past tense of abide while abode is past tense of abide.

As a noun abode is

act of waiting; delay.

abided

English

Verb

(head)
  • (archaic) (abide)
  • Anagrams

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    abide

    English

    Verb

  • *
  • *: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.
  • *
  • *:Let every man abide in the same calling wherein he was called.
  • *
  • *: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.
  • *:
  • *: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
  • *
  • *:Bonds and afflictions abide me.
  • *
  • (label) To endure without yielding; to withstand; await defiantly; to encounter; to persevere.
  • :
  • *
  • (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.
  • *
  • *: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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  • Usage notes

    * (bear patiently) Used in the negative form can't abide is used to indicate strong dislike.

    See also

    * dwell * live * reside * stay

    abode

    English

    Alternative forms

    * (obsolete)

    Etymology 1

    From (etyl) abod, abad, from (etyl) . For the change of vowel, compare ''abode'', preterit of ''abide .

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (obsolete) Act of waiting; delay.
  • * 1590 , (Edmund Spenser), (The Faerie Queene) , III.viii:
  • Vpon his Courser set the louely lode, / And with her fled away without abode .
  • (obsolete) Stay or continuance in a place; sojourn.
  • * 1661 , , [http://archive.org/stream/a615775104worduoft/a615775104worduoft_djvu.txt The Life of the most learned, reverend and pious Dr. H. Hammond]
  • During the whole time of his abode in the university he generally spent thirteen hours of the day in study; by which assiduity besides an exact dispatch of the whole course of philosophy, he read over in a manner all classic authors that are extant
  • * (rfdate), (Henry Fielding) (1707-1754)
  • He waxeth at your abode here.
  • *
  • , title=(The Celebrity), chapter=8 , passage=The humor of my proposition appealed more strongly to Miss Trevor than I had looked for, and from that time forward she became her old self again;
  • (formal) A residence, dwelling or habitation.
  • of no fixed abode .
  • * (rfdate), (William Wordsworth) (1770-1850)
  • Come, let me lead you to our poore abode .
    Synonyms
    * See also

    Verb

    (head)
  • (abide)
  • Etymology 2

    * From an alteration with bode and (etyl) *

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (obsolete) An omen; a foretelling.
  • * High-thundering Juno's husband stirs my spirit with true abodes . -
  • Verb

    (abod)
  • (obsolete) To bode; to foreshow; to presage.
  • (Shakespeare)
  • (obsolete) To be ominous.
  • Derived terms
    * abodement * aboding

    See also

    * dwelling

    References