abidal

English

Noun

abidal (uncountable)

1. (obsolete) The act or condition of abiding; residence, stay.
   • 1871, John Sherren Brewer, editor, Calendar of the Carew Manuscripts, page 202:

     So that within a little time after, this Earl of Sussex, L. Lieutenant, departed into England not fully contented with the country, nor they well pleased with his abidal, so that more friends he had by his departure then, he had in Ireland whiles he was with them.