abeyance

名词 n.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. Expectancy; a condition when an ownership of real property is undetermined; lapse in succession of ownership of estate, or title. countable,uncountable
    — The proceeds of the estate shall be held in abeyance in an escrow account until the minor reaches age twenty-one.
  2. Suspension; temporary suppression; dormant condition. countable,uncountable
    — Without a plausible explanation for what might have provoked an ice age, the whole theory fell into abeyance.
  3. Expectancy of a noble or armigeral title, its right in existence but its exercise suspended. countable,uncountable
    — The broad pennant of a commodore first class has been in abeyance since 1958, together with the rank.

词形变化

abeyances plural

词汇关系

衍生词
abeyancy in abeyance

词源

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 batō (“to yawn”).
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