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What does "remain" mean?

Remain: Of whom the greater part remain unto this present, but some are fallen asleep. 1 Cor. xv.

Additional senses

  1. 2.That . . . remains to be proved. Locke.
  2. 3.To continue unchanged in place, form, or condition, or undiminished in quantity; to abide; to stay; to endure; to last. Remain a widow at thy father's house. Gen. xxxviii.
  3. 4.Childless thou art; childless remain. Milton.
  4. 5.To await; to be left to. [Archaic] The easier conquest now remains thee. Milton.
  5. 6.State of remaining; stay. [Obs.] Which often, since my here remain in England, I 've seen him do. Shak.
  6. 7.That which is left; relic; remainder; -- chiefly in the plural. "The remains of old Rome." Addison. When this remain of horror has entirely subsided. Burke.
  7. 8.Specif., in the plural: (a) That which is left of a human being after the life is gone; relics; a dead body. Old warriors whose adored remains In weeping vaults her hallowed earth contains! Pope. (b) The posthumous works or productions, esp. literary works, of one who is dead; as, Cecil's Remains.

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