abye

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English

Verb

abye

Alternative form of aby
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book III, Canto IV”, in The Faerie Queene. , London: [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, stanza 38, page 455:
  Who dyes the vtmoſt dolor doth abye, / But who that liues, is lefte to waile his loſſe: / So life is loſſe, and death felicity.
- 1870, William Morris, “February: Bellerophon in Lycia”, in The Earthly Paradise: A Poem, part IV, London: F S Ellis, , →OCLC, page 339:
  We doubt thee not; / Thy tale seems true, nor dost thou glorify / Thyself herein—certes thou wouldst abye / A heavy fate if thou shouldst lie herein— […]
- 1892, Robert Louis Stevenson, “The Wood by Silvermills”, in Catriona, London; Edinburgh: Thomas Nelson & Sons, →OCLC, page 131:
  The muckle black deil was father to the Frasers, a'body kens that; and as for the Gregara, I never could abye the reek of them since I could stotter on two feet.

Anagrams

Abey, Baye, abey, beya, eBay

Scots

Etymology

a- +‎ by (“before, by the time that”)

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /əˈbaɪ/

Adverb

abye

ago, past.

Verb

abye

(archaic) pay dearly for an offence
endure

References

“abye, adv, v.”, in The Dictionary of the Scots Language, Edinburgh: Scottish Language Dictionaries, 2004–present, →OCLC.

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