abider

Noun

abider (plural abiders)

1. (obsolete) One who abides, or continues.
   • Hee sayde, they were the Maisters of warre, and ornaments of peace : speedy goers, and strong abiders : triumphers both in Camps and Courts.c. 1583, Philip Sidney with Evelyn Shirley Shuckburgh, An Apologie for Poetrie, published 1891, page 1
2. One who dwells or stays; a resident.
   • But although it had everything 'to content the purse, the heart, the eye', there was a local proverb saying: 'What is best for the Abider is worst for the [Traveler]c. 1610, John Speed with Eva Germaine Rimington Taylor, An atlas of Tudor England and Wales: 40 plates from John Speed's pocket atlas, published 1951, page 27
   • Much spends the traveller more than the abider.1640, George Herbert, Jacula Prudentum; or, Outlandish Proverbs, Sentences, etc., in The Remains of that Sweet Singer of the Temple George Herbert, London: Pickering, 1841, p. 150