abeyance

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Contents 1 English 1.1 Etymology 1.2 Noun 1.2.1 Translations 1.3 Shorthand

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[edit] Etymology

Old French abeance, expectation, longing; a Latin (ad) + baer, beer, to gape, to look with open mouth, to expect, French bayer, Late Latin badare to gape.

[edit] Noun

abeyance (plural abeyances)

1. (law) Expectancy; condition of being undetermined.

   The proceeds of the estate shall be held in abeyance in an escrow account until the minor reaches age twenty-one.

   Note: When there is no person in existence in whom an inheritance (or a dignity) can vest, it is said to be in abeyance, that is, in expectation; the law considering it as always potentially existing, and ready to vest whenever a proper owner appears. Blackstone

2. Suspension; temporary suppression.

   He kept his temper in abeyance for several moments, when he found out what she had done.

   Keeping the sympathies of love and admiration in a dormant state, or state of abeyance. -De Quincey

3. (heraldry) Expectancy of a title, its right in existence but its exercise suspended.

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[edit] Shorthand

• Gregg (Version: Centennial,Series 90,DJS,Simplified,Anniversary): a - b - a - n - left s

(Version: Pre-Anniversary): a - b - e - n - left s