0 If you can't abide someone or something, you dislike them very much:
I can't abide her.
He couldn't abide laziness.
He abided in the wilderness for forty days.
The nature of that empire has been of abiding interest, as the extensive bibliography of the book under review shows.
The abiding impression is of a composer whose work embodies some intriguing contradictions.
There abides he, in his squalor and unreason, in his falsity and drunken violence, as the ready-made nucleus of degradation and disorder.
Of abiding importance, though, is the fundamental distinction, alluded to above and accepted by the vast majority of studies, between repetition and revision.
In adolescence, the conduct measure assessed law-abiding and socialnorm abiding behavior versus fighting and getting into trouble with the law.
They shared with senior men an abiding faith in the promise of marriage and the presumption that bridewealth made marriage.
In most cases, the leaders abided by these restrictions rather than face years of imprisonment ; most of those who did not fled into exile.
Postnational narratives formed a continuum with national narratives, moreover, in their covert but abiding reliance on traditional narrativity itself.
