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Definition abeyance

Etymology

First attested in 1528. From Anglo-Norman abeiance (“legal expectation”), from Old French abeance (“desire”) from abeër (“to gape at, aspire after”), abaer, abair (“to desire”), from a (“to”) + baër (“to gape”), bair (“yawn”), from Medieval Latin bat? (“to yawn”).

Noun

abeyance (countable and uncountable, plural abeyances)

  1. (law) Expectancy; condition of ownership of real property being undetermined; lapse in succession of ownership of estate, or title. [Late 16 century]
  2. Suspension; temporary suppression; dormant condition. [Mid 17 century]
  3. (heraldry) Expectancy of a title, its right in existence but its exercise suspended.

Results 63 Words with the letters ABEYANCE

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15 letter words with the letters ABEYANCE ↑
CORYNEBACTERIAL 28
EXCHANGEABILITY 36
HENDECASYLLABIC 32
HENDECASYLLABLE 30
INEFFACEABILITY 31
INTERCHANGEABLY 30
INTRACEREBRALLY 26
14 letter words with the letters ABEYANCE ↑
CORYNEBACTERIA 26
12 letter words with the letters ABEYANCE ↑
INEFFACEABLY 28
10 letter words with the letters ABEYANCE ↑
ABEYANCIES 19
9 letter words with the letters ABEYANCE ↑
ABEYANCES 18
8 letter words with the letters ABEYANCE ↑
ABEYANCE 17
4 letter words with the letters ABEYANCE ↑
ABYE 9
ACNE 8
BANE 8
BEAN 8
BEEN 8
BENE 8
CANE 8
CYAN 10
EYEN 7
EYNE 7
NABE 8
YEAN 7
3 letter words with the letters ABEYANCE ↑
ABA 6
ABY 8
ACE 6
ANA 4
ANE 4
ANY 6
AYE 5
BAA 6
BAN 7
BAY 8
BEE 6
BEN 7
BEY 8
BYE 8
CAB 9
CAN 7
CAY 8
CEE 6
EYE 5
NAB 7
NAE 4
NAY 6
NEB 7
NEE 4
YEA 5
YEN 6
2 letter words with the letters ABEYANCE ↑
AA 2
AB 5
AE 2
AN 3
AY 4
BA 5
BE 5
BY 7
EN 3
NA 3
NE 3
YA 4
YE 4

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