abiding-place
See also: abiding place
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- (US) IPA(key): /əˈbaɪ.dɪŋ pleɪs/
Noun
abiding-place (plural abiding-places)
- The place where one abides; a permanent dwelling-place.
- a place of rest; a resting-place.
- 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:
- [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.
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- “abiding-place”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.
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