Abides in a sentence

While she stood there, listening to the gossip of the dressmaker, the passion that abides at the heart of all desperation inflamed her mind.
Ellen Anderson Gholson Glasgow, Barren Ground

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Dictionary

Merriam-Webster
— to bear patiently : TOLERATE
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Macmillan
— an old word meaning ‘to stay or live somewhere’
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Other Word Forms

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Usage

1 use of ‘abides’ in Barren Ground, by Ellen Anderson Gholson Glasgow