Calef seemingly believed in possessions,-that is, in control by spirits of some quality,-but was unwilling to concede that such control was witchcraft, as many people at that day did, though Mather may not have been one among them Abidingly.
"Witchcraft of New England Explained by Modern Spiritualism"
Allen Putnam
But if I love you, profoundly, Abidingly, consumingly-as I do, Anna Callender, as I do!
"Kincaid's Battery"
George W. Cable
What he was Abidingly conscious of, was of a beautiful wild creature struggling with difficulties in which he was somehow himself concerned, and out of which, in some way or other, he was becoming more and more determined-absurdly determined-to help her.
"Marcella"
Mrs. Humphry Ward