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abode

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Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
abode1

▶noun formal or literary a house or home.

■ the fact of living somewhere: his right of abode in Britain.

– origin ME: verbal noun from abide.

Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
abode2

▶verb archaic past of abide.

'abode' also found in these Oxford entries:

Hades - heaven - kingdom - limbo - paradise - pleroma - repair - right of abode - Sheol - underworld

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A far more melancholy abode
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