Plural: abeyances
ETYM Old Fren. abeance expectation, longing; a (Latin ad) + baer, beer, to gape, to look with open mouth, to expect, French bayer, Late Lat. badare to gape.
Temporary cessation or suspension; SYN. suspension.
Doctrine whereby a peerage falls into a state of suspension between a number of coheirs or coheiresses.
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