what is abeyance ?

abeyance 

An abeyance is a transitory stop to something, with the accentuation on "brief." It is typically utilized with "in" or "into"; "in abeyance" proposes a condition of pausing or holding.

The word abeyance has a legitimate ring to it, and for a valid justification — showing up in English in the sixteenth century, it originates from the Anglo-French word abeiance, a lawful term for pausing or wanting to get property. These days, the word is utilized also. Distinctive legitimate rights, similar to property rights, can be held in abeyance until the point that issues are settled.

Use Examples 

1.Prosecutors say Andersen's blameworthy supplication will be held in abeyance for year and a half.
2.On MSNBC, he expressed that it was not important to keep up the demand while his customer's different demand to mediate for the situation was being held in abeyance while she anticipated a consultation.
3.A Froome win leaves the race result in abeyance pending the decision.
4.Unfortunately, he kicked the bucket all of a sudden in 1916, in any event mostly depleted by his mission and the inquiry fell into abeyance while Lowell's beneficiaries quarreled about his home.
Multi week, the commission revealed to her that her case was being "held in abeyance" in light of El-Amin's retirement, Williams said.
6.A judge on Thursday requested the 48-year-old Thomas to burn through three months in prison with an additional three months in abeyance and two years of probation.
7.Tragedy isn't avoided, however enduring and demise are held immediately in abeyance.
8.As Walt Whitman composed, new universes and conditions require we put "doctrines and schools in abeyance" and search for 9.new dialect with which to see one another.
10.When you are brought up in two societies on the double — when individuals find in both of you legacies at chances, uncertain, in abeyance you figure out how to move voluntarily between them.

11.The Office of Legal Counsel assessment in 2000 likewise directs against a prosecution of a sitting president that is then held in abeyance.