Meanings
nounabiding place (plural abiding places)
plural abiding places
- alternativeAlternative form of abiding-place.
[H]e determined (with an eye rather to heart-interests than to increasing his professional practice) to make, as before, the castle itself his office, studio, and chief abiding place till the works were fairly in progress.
1880–1881, Thomas Hardy, chapter VII, in A Laodicean; or, The Castle of the De Stancys. A Story of To-day. […], volume II, London: Sampson Low, Marston, Searle & Rivington, […], published 1881, →OCLC, book the third (De Stancy), page 143
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