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In abeyance

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  1. 1
    On hold; at a moment of inactivity.

    "His defences were all in his wits and cunning, his very instincts of cunning, and when these were in abeyance he seemed doubly naked and like a child, of unfinished, tender flesh, and somehow struggling helplessly."

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