abide
verb (used without object)
to remain; continue; stay.
have abode
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present perfectof abide.present perfect
Used to describe actions that started in the past and continue into or have direct relevance to the present.
Example Sentences
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The salt land proved as insecure a prison, for this embarrassing being as the pit where he was to have abode for ever.
From Bunyan by James Anthony Froude
Men of the High North, you who have known it; You in whose hearts its splendors have abode; Can you renounce it, can you disown it?
From Ballads of a Cheechako by Robert W. (Robert William) Service
In short, she was perfection’s perfect choice, And Beauty’s fairest child of all the group Of Eve’s unnumbered daughters, who abide, Or have abode, amid these mingled scenes.
From A Leaf from the Old Forest by John D. Cossar
And if the Magician would have made a pet of her no doubt she would have abode with him.
From The Twilight of the Gods, and Other Tales by Richard Garnett
