Meaning & use
Abeyant
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Temporarily suspended, inactive, or dormant, especially with the expectation of later revival.
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The committee's decision left the merger in an abeyant state until shareholders could vote.
Old family disputes stayed abeyant for years before resurfacing at the reunion.
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A rare adjectival form built from the noun 'abeyance'; it appears mostly in formal, legal, or literary writing rather than everyday speech.
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