rare. [f. ABEYANCE, with ending -NCY, more specially expressing quality or state.] A condition or state of abeyance.
1836. Pet. of Sarah Otway Cave, 319. The Interest which devolves upon each Co-heir pending the Abeyancy.
1872. Hawthorne, Septimius (ed. 2), 247. There seemed to be some pretentions to a title, too, from a barony which was floating about, and occasionally moving out of abeyancy.
