Results for abeyance
Definitions of abeyance:
part of speech: noun
A
state
of
temporary
abolition
of
function.
Usage examples for abeyance:
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But
now
that
honorable
cause
was
manifestly
in
abeyance
and
they
would
not
leave
their
homes
and
endanger
their
lives
for
the
phantom
of
national
independence
offered
them
by
the
revolution.
"Pius IX. And His Time", The Rev. Æneas MacDonell Dawson
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The
question,
however,
was
for
the
present
left
in
abeyance
and
until
it
was
settled
they
decided
not
to
go
to
any
church
at
all.
"A Galahad of the Creeks; The Widow Lamport", S. (Sidney) Levett-Yeats
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If
the
reason
be "
tanti,"
the
principle
should
for
the
occasion
be
put
in
abeyance
"Autobiography of Anthony Trollope", Anthony Trollope