2. Verb. (third-person singular of abode) ¹
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Definition of Abodes
1. abode [v] - See also: abode
Lexicographical Neighbors of Abodes
Literary usage of Abodes
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Documentary History of Reconstruction: Political, Military, Social by Walter Lynwood Fleming (1907)
"The abodes of the Blacks in Cities Twenty-first Report, Freedmen's Aid Society, p.
... Their miserable abodes are exposed to the chilly blasts of winter, ..."
2. Original Sanskrit Texts on the Origin and History of the People of India by John Muir (1871)
""If we assume that the Arian Indians and the Iranians had originally the same
common abodes, out of India, we should expect to find a tradition on the ..."
3. A Concordance to the Works of Alexander Popeby Edwin Abbott by Edwin Abbott (1875)
"79 Here fix'd the dreadful, there the A abodes EM iii. ... Sß.g$ Ambition first
sprung from your A abodes UL 13 Some thoughtless Town, with ease and plenty ..."
4. Appletons' Annual Cyclopædia and Register of Important Events of the Year (1875)
"... by proclamation, command such insurgente to disperse and retire peaceably to
their respective abodes, within a limited time: now— In witness whereof, ..."
5. Publishers Weekly by Publishers' Board of Trade (U.S.), Book Trade Association of Philadelphia, American Book Trade Union, Am. Book Trade Association, R.R. Bowker Company (1890)
"... incomparably more vast, the forces of nature have given birth in the innumerable
abodes of the sky to an infinite diversity of beings and substances. ..."
6. The Works of Alexander Hamilton: Containing His Correspondence, and His by Alexander Hamilton (1851)
"... is our duty to cultivate resignation, and even humility, bearing in mind, in
the language of the poet, that it was " pride which lost the blest abodes ..."
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