I've heard the old doctor say, sir, as a man of a full 'abit might be took off at once, when a spare man would fight through.
It's a bad 'abit ter git into,' and he began rolling and swaying about like a drunken man.
She does not connect 'im with the 'andsome artist who in'abit 'er skylight chamber.
Tel forth, and shame thee never a del; For as thyn abit shewith wel, 6480 Thou [semest] an holy heremyte.
And if I dwelle, I feyne me I may wel in her abit go; But me were lever my nekke atwo, Than lete a purpose that I take, What covenaunt that ever I make.
I mene of fals religious, That stoute ben, and malicious; That wolen in an abit go, And setten not hir herte therto.
Of Antecristes men am I, Of whiche that Crist seith openly, 7010 They have abit of holinesse, And liven in such wikkednesse.
But I ne speke in no such wyse, That men shulde humble abit dispyse, So that no pryde ther-under be.
The second line occurs in another connection in AR, ‘moni mon abit to schriuen him uort þe nede tippe.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "abit" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
