abeyance
IPA: ʌbˈeɪʌns
noun
- (law) Expectancy; a condition when an ownership of real property is undetermined; lapse in succession of ownership of estate, or title.
- Suspension; temporary suppression; dormant condition.
- Expectancy of a noble or armigeral title, its right in existence but its exercise suspended.
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Examples of "abeyance" in Sentences
- The title has remained in abeyance.
- The title of Kolathiri has fallen into abeyance.
- And they would rather hold that money in abeyance for next year.
- It is as if the ruling is in abeyance until the appeal is decided.
- It definitely feels that it cannot ignore Christ, is not capable of leaving Christ in abeyance and then otherwise leading a busy life.
- But my impression of a suspended sentence is that it is held in abeyance unless the defendant completes a period of time without a further criminal offense.
- "If the socialistic spirit is to be held in abeyance in this country, businesses of this character (anthracite coal mining) must be handled with extraordinary caution."
- In fact even the committed ones should put their decision in abeyance not because of popular vote or other but rather because Obama has not gone trough the procees of vetting.
- Futures is the award-winning science-fiction section of Nature, currently in abeyance in Nature itself but being published each month in Nature's monthly sister title, Nature Physics.
- Without fossil fuels, or some form of alternative energy that can be scaled up to the consumption level of fossil fuels, these non-adaptive social systems will collapse, and all the ferocity of tribal competitiveness, which they had been holding in abeyance, will appear.