abiding

[a·bid·ing]

Something abiding sticks around, lasting a long time. Abiding is usually used with feelings and memories as in your abiding love for Elmo.

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Continuing; lasting.

Adjective S.
unceasing; "an abiding belief"; "imperishable truths"


p. pr. & vb. n.
of Abide

a.
Continuing; lasting.


Abiding

A*bid"ing, a. Continuing; lasting.

Continuing; lasting.

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Usage Examples

Only on paper has humanity yet achieved glory, beauty, truth, knowledge, virtue, and abiding love.

The qualities of an exceptional cook are akin to those of a successful tightrope walker: an abiding passion for the task, courage to go out on a limb and an impeccable sense of balance.

I've got a very deep and abiding passion about education being far more than buildings and textbooks it's what children bring into school with them.

My parents shared not only an improbable love, they shared an abiding faith in the possibilities of this nation. They would give me an African name, Barack, or blessed, believing that in a tolerant America your name is no barrier to success.

Amidst the confusion of the times, the conflicts of conscience, and the turmoil of daily living, an abiding faith becomes an anchor to our lives.

Americans have an abiding belief in their ability to control reality by purely material means... airline insurance replaces the fear of death with the comforting prospect of cash.

Misspelled Form

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Other Usage Examples

I told the brethren that the Book of Mormon was the most correct of any book on earth, and the keystone of our religion, and a man would get nearer to God by abiding by its precepts, than by any other book.

As an artist I have an even more abiding interest in the compact between the Arts and Government.

The great and abiding lesson of American history, particularly the cold war, is that the engine of capitalism, the individual, is mightier than any collective.

The state's interest in marriage is stability. Generally speaking, polygamy does not work for stability. Inherent in the whole polygamous movement is a deep and abiding misogyny and denigration of women. So polygamy is objectionable on lots of grounds.

No art form points like poetry to this originality of language as to its essential and abiding concern.

All human beings have an innate need to hear and tell stories and to have a story to live by. religion, whatever else it has done, has provided one of the main ways of meeting this abiding need.

Being Irish, he had an abiding sense of tragedy, which sustained him through temporary periods of joy.

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