Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- In an abiding manner; enduringly; lastingly; permanently.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adverb Permanently.
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Examples
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When an American-flag-waving delegation of their Alexandria hosts, Tenants and Workers United, briefly marches in a lane of traffic, blocking cars, the trekkers stick law-abidingly to the sidewalk.
Trail of Dream students walk 1,500 miles to bring immigration message to Washington 2010
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Leah Hager Cohen on The Writer's Brush: Paintings, Drawings, and Sculpture by Artists by Donald Friedman: When we think of such heavyweights as Goethe, Dostoyevsky, Faulkner, Yeats and Proust — all represented in these pages — we may think of them with reverence; certainly we view their works as being abidingly and immutably rooted in language, founded on words.
An Amazon.com Books Blog featuring news, reviews, interviews and guest author blogs. 2008
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When an American-flag-waving delegation of their Alexandria hosts, Tenants and Workers United, briefly marches in a lane of traffic, blocking cars, the trekkers stick law-abidingly to the sidewalk.
Trail of Dream students walk 1,500 miles to bring immigration message to Washington 2010
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N: don't think that a society can be encultured to the point where they are willing to law-abidingly starve to death or die of exposure.
Nasty, Brutish Looting, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009
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Forgetting the levels of firepower loosed in Vietnam, the image itself is abidingly odd.
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I don't think that a society can be encultured to the point where they are willing to law-abidingly starve to death or die of exposure.
Nasty, Brutish Looting, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009
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Savvy, smart, magnificently irreverent, abidingly funny ... disrespectful and much given to ridicule.
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When read literally, the Hebrew Bible is an abidingly strange and powerful text.
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The young man who drafted the Declaration of Independence and who later became President Jefferson was a Deist, as were several of the other founding fathers of that abidingly important institution, the United States.
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The fact is, these very welcome props to Mildred Loving and her husband Richard are deeply, abidingly, and intrinsically progressive values.
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