ABIDING

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does abiding mean? 

• ABIDING (adjective)
  The adjective ABIDING has 1 sense:

1. lasting a long time

  Familiarity information: ABIDING used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• ABIDING (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Lasting a long time

Synonyms:

abiding; enduring; imperishable

Context example:

imperishable truths

Similar:

lasting; permanent (continuing or enduring without marked change in status or condition or place)

 Context examples 

The act of abiding by a stated treatment plan or protocol.

(Adherence, NCI Thesaurus)

For, after all, he had never found his permanent abiding place.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

Who are you that dare to come here to insult a law-abiding man?

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

But her abiding reliance was on Mr. Dick.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

Thenceforth, in the nature of things, he would possess an abiding distrust of appearances.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

‘Here we are, Jack,’ says he, touching me on the arm; ‘we’ll be as good as a family to you. There’s two of us, me and my son, and you can have the keeping of us. If you don’t—it’s a fine, law-abiding country is England, and there’s always a policeman within hail.’

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

In truth I must acknowledge that, with all the disadvantages of this humble parsonage, I should not think anyone abiding in it an object of compassion, while they are sharers of our intimacy at Rosings.

(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)

They are against you, you know; but I assured them over and over of my abiding love for you, and at last father agreed that if you wanted to, you could begin right away in his office.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

I see myself passing on among the novelties of foreign towns, palaces, cathedrals, temples, pictures, castles, tombs, fantastic streets—the old abiding places of History and Fancy—as a dreamer might; bearing my painful load through all, and hardly conscious of the objects as they fade before me.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)