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abeyancy en · NOUN

Pronunciation

• /əˈbeɪ.ənt.si/ (US)
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Etymology

Etymology tree English abeyance Latin -ia Old French -ieder. Middle English -ie Middle English -y English -y English abeyancy From abeyance + -y.

Meanings

1. (countable, rare, uncountable) Abeyance.
   • 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! a. 1865 (date written; first published 1872 January–August), Nathaniel Hawthorne, edited by Una Hawthorne, Septimius Felton; or The Elixir of Life, Boston, Mass.: James R[ipley] Osgood and Company, published 1872, →OCLC, page 190:

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