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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

ABI'DING, ppr. Dwelling; remaining; continuing; enduring; awaiting.
ABI'DING, n. Continuance; fixed state; residence; an enduring.

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

adj
1: unceasing; "an abiding belief"; "imperishable truths" [syn: abiding, enduring, imperishable]

Merriam Webster's

adjective Date: 14th century enduring, continuing <an abiding interest in nature> • abidingly adverb

Oxford Reference Dictionary

adj. enduring, permanent (an abiding sense of loss). Derivatives: abidingly adv.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Abiding A*bid"ing, a. Continuing; lasting.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Abide A*bide", v. i. [imp. & p. p. Abode, formerly Abid; p. pr. & vb. n. Abiding.] [AS. [=a]b[=i]dan; pref. [=a]- (cf. Goth. us-, G. er-, orig. meaning out) + b[=i]dan to bide. See Bide.] 1. To wait; to pause; to delay. [Obs.] --Chaucer. 2. To stay; to continue in a place; to have one's abode; to dwell; to sojourn; -- with with before a person, and commonly with at or in before a place. Let the damsel abide with us a few days. --Gen. xxiv. 55. 3. To remain stable or fixed in some state or condition; to continue; to remain. Let every man abide in the same calling. --1 Cor. vii. 20. Followed by by: To abide by. (a) To stand to; to adhere; to maintain. The poor fellow was obstinate enough to abide by what he said at first. --Fielding. (b) To acquiesce; to conform to; as, to abide by a decision or an award.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

An abiding feeling, memory, or interest is one that you have for a very long time. He has a genuine and abiding love of the craft... = lasting ? short-lived ADJ: ADJ n

Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms

a. Permanent, lasting, durable, constant, continuing, stable, changeless, unchangeable, immutable.

Moby Thesaurus

age-long, aged, ancient, antique, changeless, chronic, commorant, constant, continuing, continuous, diuturnal, durable, dwelling, enduring, evergreen, firm, fixed, frozen, hardy, immobile, immutable, in residence, indefatigable, intact, intransient, inveterate, inviolate, lasting, living, living in, lodging, long-lasting, long-lived, long-standing, long-term, longeval, longevous, macrobiotic, never-failing, of long duration, of long standing, perdurable, perduring, perennial, permanent, perpetual, persistent, persisting, quiescent, remaining, resident, residentiary, residing, rigid, sempervirent, solid, stable, static, stationary, staying, steadfast, steady, sticking, sustained, torpid, tough, unaltered, unceasing, unchangeable, unchanged, unchanging, unchecked, undestroyed, undying, unfading, unfailing, unfaltering, unqualified, unquestioning, unremitting, unshifting, unvaried, unvarying, vital, wholehearted