Abeyancy
//əˈbeɪ.ənt.si// noun
noun ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
Noun
- 1 Abeyance. countable, rare, uncountable
"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!"
Example
More examples"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!"
Etymology
From abeyance + -y.
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