abeyance
English
Etymology
First attested in 1528. From Anglo-Norman abeiance (“legal expectation”), from Old French abeance (“desire”) from abeër (“to gape at, aspire after”), abaer, abair (“to desire”), from a (“to”) + baër (“to gape”),[1] bair (“yawn”), from Medieval Latin batō (“to yawn”)[2][3].
Pronunciation
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Noun
abeyance (countable and uncountable, plural abeyances)
- (law) Expectancy; condition of ownership of real property being undetermined; lapse in succession of ownership of estate, or title. [Late 16th century][4]
- The proceeds of the estate shall be held in abeyance in an escrow account until the minor reaches age twenty-one.
- 1765, William Blackstone, Commentaries on the Laws of England:
- Yet sometimes the fee may be in abeyance, that is (as the word signifies) in expectation, remembrance, and contemplation in law; there being no person in esse, in whom it can vest and abide […]
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- Suspension; temporary suppression; dormant condition. [Mid 17th century][4]
- 2003, Bill Bryson, A Short History of Nearly Everything, BCA, published 2003, page 376:
- Without a plausible explanation for what might have provoked an ice age, the whole theory fell into abeyance.
- (heraldry) Expectancy of a title, its right in existence but its exercise suspended.
- The broad pennant of a commodore first class has been in abeyance since 1958, together with the rank.
Translations
expectancy; condition of being undetermined
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suspension; temporary suppression
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heraldry: expectancy of a title
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References
- ^ William Morris, editor (1969 (1971 printing)), “abeyance”, in The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, New York, N.Y.: American Heritage Publishing Co., →OCLC, page 3.
- ^ Philip Babcock Gove (editor), Webster's Third International Dictionary of the English Language, Unabridged (G. & C. Merriam Co., 1976 [1909], →ISBN), page 3
- ^ Elliott K. Dobbie, C. William Dunmore, Robert K. Barnhart, et al. (editors), Chambers Dictionary of Etymology (Chambers Harrap Publishers Ltd, 2004 [1998], →ISBN), page 2
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 Lesley Brown, editor-in-chief, William R. Trumble and Angus Stevenson, editors (2002), “abeyance”, in The Shorter Oxford English Dictionary on Historical Principles, 5th edition, Oxford, New York, N.Y.: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 4.
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