† 1. Assiduously, patiently. Obs.
a. 1520. Myrroure of Our Ladye, 64. Thys gostly study … muste be contynued ful besely and abydyngly euery day.
2. Enduringly, permanently.
1840. Carlyle, Heroes (1858), iii. 258. The noblest idea … is sung, and emblemed forth abidingly, by one of the noblest men.
1881. Contemp. Rev., Feb., 174. We have clutched some good lawlessly, and found it abidingly precious.
