abider
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abider (plural abiders)
- (obsolete) One who abides, or continues.
- c. 1583, Philip Sidney; Evelyn Shirley Shuckburgh, An Apologie for Poetrie, published 1891, page 1:
- Hee sayde, they were the Maisters of warre, and ornaments of peace : speedy goers, and strong abiders : triumphers both in Camps and Courts.
- c. 1583, Philip Sidney; Evelyn Shirley Shuckburgh, An Apologie for Poetrie, published 1891, page 1:
- One who dwells; a resident.
- c. 1610, John Speed; Eva Germaine Rimington Taylor, An atlas of Tudor England and Wales: 40 plates from John Speed's pocket atlas, published 1951, page 27:
- But although it had everything 'to content the purse, the heart, the eye', there was a local proverb saying: 'What is best for the Abider is worst for the [Traveler]
- c. 1610, John Speed; Eva Germaine Rimington Taylor, An atlas of Tudor England and Wales: 40 plates from John Speed's pocket atlas, published 1951, page 27:
