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abeyance
/ əˈbeɪəns /
noun
- usually preceded byin or into a state of being suspended or put aside temporarily
- usually preceded by in law an indeterminate state of ownership, as when the person entitled to an estate has not been ascertained
Derived Forms
- aˈbeyant, adjective
Word History and Origins
Word History and Origins
Origin of abeyance1
Example Sentences
However, following outrage, it decided on June 29 to keep the move in abeyance.
Not a single one of his fellow conservatives joined his call to hold what he called a “not only unusual, but unprecedented,” law in abeyance until lower courts and the justices could examine it more closely.
It’s unclear when lenders will end the abeyance awarded all of those delinquent mortgages.
The court will then hold the eleven felony allocutions in abeyance.
Or were they merely orthodox through a more uneven balancing of their qualities, the animal in abeyance?
My own direct correspondence with Mr. Baxter is now about three months in abeyance.
Fettes, with various liquors singing in his head, returned home with devious footsteps and a mind entirely in abeyance.
Dashwood retired with Bute and the barony of Despencer was called out of abeyance in his favour.
Still, public feeling was so strong that by the middle of the century the laws had almost fallen into abeyance.
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