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abeyant

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WOTD – 12 July 2019

Etymology

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Back-formation fromabeyance +‎-ant.[1]

Pronunciation

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Adjective

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abeyant (comparativemoreabeyant,superlativemostabeyant)

  1. Being in a state ofabeyance;suspended.[from mid 19th c.][2]
    Synonyms:dormant,inactive,latent;see alsoThesaurus:inactive
    • 1835,Richard Bligh (reporter), “Slane Peerage Case”, inNew Reports of Cases Heard in the House of Lords, on Appeals and Writs of Error; and Decided during the Session 1836, volume X, London: Saunders and Benning, law booksellers, (successors toJ. Butterworth and Son,) […], published1838,→OCLC,page87:
      This statute, and that in favour of the heirs general before mentioned, would of themselves, it is submitted, establish that the barony of Slane, was neither a peerage in fee nor a palatine honor. Had it been the former, it would have becomeabeyant between the heirs general: had it been the latter, it would have been annihilated by the non-possession of the lands.
    • 2005,Chester A[rthur] Crocker,Fen Osler Hampson, Pamela R. Aall, “Introduction: Mapping the Nettle Field”, in Chester A. Crocker, Fen Osler Hampson, Pamela Aall, editors,Grasping the Nettle: Analyzing Cases of Intractable Conflict, Washington, D.C.:United States Institute of Peace Press,→ISBN,page11:
      Inabeyant intractable conflicts violence is suspended, or "frozen" (i.e., they have gone into remission), usually because a third party is willing and able to guarantee the terms of a negotiated cease-fire—a cease-fire that may also include the broad outlines of a political settlement.
    • 2013, William Nester, “Total War”, inThe Age of Lincoln and the Art of American Power, 1848–1876, Lincoln, Neb.: Potomac Books,University of Nebraska Press,→ISBN,part 2 (Civil War, 1861–1865),page202:
      So even where extraordinary circumstances render civilian courtsabeyant, the civilian law must be reintroduced as soon as the emergency ends.
    • 2013 October,Jonathan L. Howard, “In which there is a Battle and Cabal Makes It Quick”, inJohannes Cabal: The Fear Institute, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.:Thomas Dunne Books,→ISBN,page200:
      Having placed anabeyant death sentence on Corde's head, he turned his attention to Bose, who, for his part, looked vapid and without a shred of malice or machinatory instinct about him, a soft toy in the great department store of life.

Translations

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being in a state of abeyance—see alsosuspended

References

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  1. ^“abeyant,adj.”, inOED OnlinePaid subscription required⁠, Oxford:Oxford University Press, December 2011;“abeyant”, inLexico,Dictionary.com;Oxford University Press,2019–2022.
  2. ^Lesley Brown, editor-in-chief, William R. Trumble and Angus Stevenson, editors (2002), “abeyant”, inThe Shorter Oxford English Dictionary on Historical Principles, 5th edition, volume I, Oxford; New York, N.Y.:Oxford University Press,→ISBN, page 4.

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