abider

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US/əˈbɑɪ.dɚ/

noun

One who abides, or continues.

First used First attested around 1350 to 1470.Scrabble 9

Meanings

nounabider (plural abiders)

plural abiders

  1. obsoleteOne who abides, or continues.First known use First attested around 1350 to 1470.

    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 with Evelyn Shirley Shuckburgh, An Apologie for Poetrie, published 1891, page 1
  2. One who dwells or stays; a resident.First known use First attested around 1350 to 1470.

    1640, George Herbert, Jacula Prudentum; or, Outlandish Proverbs, Sentences, etc., in The Remains of that Sweet Singer of the Temple George Herbert, London: Pickering, 1841, p. 150, Much spends the traveller more than the abider.

    1 more example

    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 with Eva Germaine Rimington Taylor, An atlas of Tudor England and Wales: 40 plates from John Speed's pocket atlas, published 1951, page 27

Origin

  1. Proto-Indo-European*ud-s-?
  2. Proto-Indo-European*h₂u-s-?
  3. Proto-Germanic*uz-
  4. Proto-Indo-European*bʰeydʰ-
  5. Proto-Indo-European*bʰéydʰeti
  6. Proto-Germanic*bīdaną
  7. Proto-Germanic*uzbīdaną
  8. Proto-West Germanic*uʀbīdan
  9. Old Englishābīdan
  10. Middle Englishabyden
  11. Englishabide
  12. Englishabider

From abide + -er.

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