English

Noun

abeyancy ‎(plural abeyancies)

1. (rare) Abeyance.
   • 1883, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Septimius Felton, or, the Elixir of Life:

     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!