Abeyance
[ə'beɪəns] or [ə'beəns]
Definition
(n.) Expectancy; condition of being undetermined.
(n.) Suspension; temporary suppression.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
n. [1]. (Law.) Expectation, prospect, expectancy, waiting, anticipation, calculation, contemplation.[2]. Suspense, reservation, intermission, remission, dormancy, quiescence.
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Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Suspension, reservation, dormancy, expectation, intermission
ANT:Revival, renewal, operation, resuscitation, action, enjoyment, possession,exercise, force
Typist: Maura
Definition
n. a state of suspension or expectation: temporary inactivity—also Abey′ancy.—The v. to Abey is rare.
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Examples
- Were they merely kept in temporary abeyance, or even only calloused, it would not be a matter of so much moment. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- Animated by this reflection, he stumps faster, and looks a long way before him, as a man with an ambitious project in abeyance often will do. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- The Constitution was therefore in abeyance for the time being, so far as it in any way affected the progress and termination of the war. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- You have put many things in abeyance to win a war. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- Under such circumstances Mr. Raffles's pleasure in annoying his company was kept in abeyance. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- At length he determined to leave the matter in abeyance for the present, and reverted to the question of Helena. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
- While these affairs were in abeyance, our visit to Mr. Boythorn's was postponed. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
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