Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The state or condition of being in abeyance.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun rare Abeyance.
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- noun rare
Abeyance .
Etymologies
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abeyance + -y
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Examples
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What a change in his lot would have been here, for there seemed to be some pretensions to a title, too, from a barony which was floating about and occasionally moving out of abeyancy!
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a change in his lot would have been here, for there seemed to be some pretensions to a title, too, from a barony which was floating about and occasionally moving out of abeyancy!
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