abeyancy

English

Etymology

Etymology tree

English abeyance

Proto-Indo-European *-(i)yós

Proto-Italic *-ijos

Proto-Italic *-ios

Old Latin -ios

Latin -ius

Latin -ia

Old French -ieder.

Middle English -ie

Middle English -y

English -y

English abeyancy

From abeyance + -y.

Pronunciation

• (US) IPA^(key): /əˈbeɪ.ənt.si/

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Noun

abeyancy (countable and uncountable, plural abeyancies)

1. (rare) Abeyance.
   • 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:

     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!