Literary notes about abiding (AI summary)
The word "abiding" in literature often conveys a sense of enduring presence or permanence, whether referring to a divine companionship, a lasting sentiment, or a steadfast characteristic. It is employed in sacred texts to denote everlasting divine companionship or eternal life, as when one speaks of God "abiding" with His followers ([1], [2], [3]). In secular writings, it similarly describes continuous qualities—ranging from the perpetual green of leaves in winter ([4]) to a deep, unchanging affection ([5], [6], [7]). Moreover, "abiding" is used to evoke stability in societal contexts, highlighting lawfulness and order ([8], [9], [10]), and to underscore enduring aspects of nature and memory ([11], [12], [13]). Overall, its usage across various genres captures an atmosphere of timeless continuity and committed presence.
- And thus shall your possession be cleansed, myself abiding with you.
— from The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Complete - And you know that no murderer hath eternal life abiding in himself.
— from The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Complete - But if thou betake thyself to the ever-living and abiding Truth, the desertion or death of a friend shall not make thee sad.
— from The Imitation of Christ by à Kempis Thomas - It shoots forth its young buds in the Spring, and the berries are ripe about September, the branches of leaves abiding green all the Winter.
— from The Complete Herbal by Nicholas Culpeper - But her abiding reliance was on Mr. Dick.
— from David Copperfield by Charles Dickens - His natural impulse was to hurry to the States and save his sister if possible, for he loved her with a deep and abiding affection.
— from The Gilded Age: A Tale of Today by Mark Twain and Charles Dudley Warner - He had unquenchable faith in the abiding presence of Christ in His Church, and of its consequent power to mould and transform the world.
— from Some Jewish Witnesses For Christ by Aaron Bernstein - They are generally cultivators, and, with the exception of the Sudarmāns, who are supposed to have a turn for crime, are law-abiding citizens.
— from Castes and Tribes of Southern India. Vol. 7 of 7 by Edgar Thurston - Nevertheless, it's your duty, as a law-abiding citizen.
— from The Thirty-Nine Steps by John Buchan - Lawlessness was soon suppressed, and the City of Mexico settled down into a quiet, law-abiding place.
— from Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant, Complete by Ulysses S. Grant - We looked at the venerable stream not in the vivid flush of a short day that comes and departs for ever, but in the august light of abiding memories.
— from Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad - But when they are bound, in the first place, they have the nature of knowledge; and, in the second place, they are abiding.
— from Meno by Plato - Consciousness is the permanent, the abiding, the changeless.
— from Know the Truth: A Critique on the Hamiltonian Theory of Limitation by Jesse Henry Jones
