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单词 abeyance
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abeyancen.

Brit. /əˈbeɪəns/, U.S. /əˈbeɪəns/
Forms: 1500s obeyaunce (transmission error), 1500s abiance, 1500s–1600s abeiance, 1500s– abeyance, 1600s abbayance.
Origin: A borrowing from French. Etymon: French abeiaunce.
Etymology: < Anglo-Norman abeiaunce, abeyaunce (in en abeiaunce ) (of a legal right or title) the state of waiting for a claimant or owner (late 14th cent.; compare Old French abeance aspiration, desire, longing (late 13th cent.)) < Anglo-Norman abayer , abeier , abaier , Anglo-Norman and Old French abaer to gape (c1200 in Anglo-Norman), to open (the mouth) wide (c1220 in Anglo-Norman), to expect, to wait for (late 13th cent.), to wait impatiently (c1300) < a- a- prefix5 + Old French beer, baer (Middle French baer, Middle French, French béer, French bayer) to open (the mouth) wide (1121–35), (of a person) to gape (1173), to long for, desire (something) (c1190; compare Old Occitan badar, Catalan badar (14th cent.), Italian badare (1294)) < post-classical Latin badare to open the mouth wide, gape, of uncertain origin; perhaps ultimately imitative.In form obeyaunce (see quot. 1528-30 at sense 1) perhaps by association with obeyance n.
1. Law. Of a right or title: the position of waiting for or temporarily being without a claimant or owner. Also: a period of being without a claimant or owner. Chiefly in in (also into) abeyance.
ΘΚΠ
society > law > legal right > [noun] > condition of being without claimant or owner
abeyance1528
abeyancy1839
1528–30 tr. T. Littleton Tenures (new ed.) iii. f. xlviiiv The ryght of fee symple is in obeyaunce [1538 abyance, 1574 abeiance], that is to say all onely in the remembraunce entendement and consyderacyon of the lawe.
1642 tr. J. Perkins Profitable Bk. xi. §708. 308 The fee is in abeyance.
1647 N. Bacon Hist. Disc. Govt. lxvi. 233 The right was vanished into the clouds, or as the Lawyers terme it in Abeyance.
1691 Blount's Νομο-λεξικον (ed. 2) (at cited word) And it is a Principle in the Law, That of every Land there is a Fee-simple in some man, or it is in Abeyance.
1719 J. Lilly Pract. Conveyancer I. 176 Where a Lease is made to B. for Life, Remainder to his right Heirs, he hath a Fee executed, and it shall not be in Abeyance.
1763 Ld. Barrington Lett. 11 Apr. in H. Ellis Orig. Lett. Eng. Hist. (1827) 2nd Ser. IV. 462 Sir Francis Dashwood called to the House of Lords as Baron Dispenser (in abeyance since Lord Westmoreland's death).
1804 W. Cruise Digest Laws Eng. Real Prop. III. 248 It falls into abeyance..during the continuance of the coheirship.
1863 H. Cox Inst. Eng. Govt. i. vii. 67 There are several instances of a barony revived after an abeyance of several centuries.
1863 C. Boutell Man. Heraldry xiv. 89 The Peerage that is in Abeyance is dormant only, and not dead.
1910 Encycl. Brit. I. 61/2 The crown can also call the peerage out of abeyance at any moment.
1957 Times 11 May 7/5 The Chief Butlery of Ireland may be in partitional abeyance, but it is hereditary with the Marquis of Ormonde.
2008 Daily Tel. 10 Sept. 31/2 The peerage had fallen into abeyance on the death of the 7th Baron in 1507, but had been revived in 1840.
2. Temporary inactivity or disuse; suspension; latent condition. Chiefly in in (also into) abeyance.
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the world > action or operation > ceasing > temporary cessation of activity or operation > [noun]
steadc1000
leathc1175
abiding1340
broklinga1400
pausation1422
pausing1440
interceasingc1450
suspensing?1504
suspending1524
intermission1526
leathing1535
suspensationc1571
intercession1572
suspense1584
abeyance1593
suspension1603
recession1606
interruption1607
recess1620
intercision1625
intercessation1659
intermittency1662
pretermission1677
break1689
cess1703
intermittence1796
1593 G. Harvey Pierces Supererogation 26 His other miraculous perfections are still in abeyance: and his monstrous excellencyes in the predicament of Chimera.
1626 W. Prynne Perpetuitie Regenerate Mans Estate 386 Peters faith..was not in abeiance, nor yet transmitted into any other subiect for the time, but vtterly lost and annihilated by this his sin.
1660 R. Coke Elements Power & Subjection 61 in Justice Vindicated And this monarchy not a thing in abeiance, an aiery title, but an absolute free and independent monarchy.
a1720 L. Milbourne Legacy Church of Eng. (1722) I. iv. 101 All this yet was but a Power in Abeyance.
1794 E. Burke Speech against W. Hastings in Wks. (1827) XV. 13 His honour is in abeyance; his estimation is suspended, and he stands as it were a doubtful person.
1829 W. Scott Lett. Demonol. vi. 181 The belief was fallen into abeyance.
1868 H. H. Milman Ann. St. Paul's Cathedral xvii. 419 In the abeyance of the Cathedral services.
1878 B. Stewart & P. G. Tait Unseen Universe vii. §204. 203 That the soul may remain veiled or in abeyance until the resurrection.
1922 E. von Arnim Enchanted April (1989) 267 She really had all the qualities he had credited her with during his courtship, and they had been..merely in abeyance since.
1997 Men's Health Sept. 153/3 For six months my passion for cream cakes has been held in abeyance.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2011; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
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