Accede vs Abide - What's the difference?
accede | abide |
(archaic) To approach; to arrive, to come forward.
To agree or assent to a proposal or a view; to give way.
To come to an office, state or dignity; to attain, assume (a position).
* 2002 , , The Great Nation , Penguin 2003, p. 32:
To become a party to an agreement or a treaty.
*
*: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.
*
As verbs the difference between accede and abide
is that accede is while abide is .accede
English
Verb
(acced)- Maintenon had been governess to the children in the late 1670s before acceding to the king's favours.