abeyancy

English

Etymology

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!
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