abye
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abye
- Alternative form of aby
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book III, Canto IV”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, stanza 38, page 455:
- Who dyes the vtmoſt dolor doth abye, / But who that liues, is lefte to waile his loſſe: / So life is loſſe, and death felicity.
- 1870, William Morris, “February: Bellerophon in Lycia”, in The Earthly Paradise: A Poem, part IV, London: F[rederick] S[tartridge] Ellis, […], →OCLC, page 339:
- We doubt thee not; / Thy tale seems true, nor dost thou glorify / Thyself herein—certes thou wouldst abye / A heavy fate if thou shouldst lie herein— […]
- 1892, Robert Louis Stevenson, “The Wood by Silvermills”, in Catriona, London, Edinburgh: Thomas Nelson & Sons, →OCLC, page 131:
- The muckle black deil was father to the Frasers, a'body kens that; and as for the Gregara, I never could abye the reek of them since I could stotter on two feet.
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Scots[edit]
Etymology[edit]
a- + by (“before, by the time that”)
Pronunciation[edit]
Adverb[edit]
abye
References[edit]
- “abye, adv.” in the Dictionary of the Scots Language, Edinburgh: Scottish Language Dictionaries.