Definition of abeyance

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abeyance

noun

Expectancy; condition of being undetermined.

The proceeds of the estate shall be held in 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

Suspension; temporary suppression.

He kept his temper in 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 . -De Quincey

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

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.

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