abeyancy
US/əˈbeɪ.ənt.si/
abeyancy noun: abeyance.
Noun
abeyancy (countable and uncountable, plural abeyancies)
- Abeyance.
- 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!a. 1865 (date written; first published 1872 January–August), Nathaniel Hawthorne, edited by Una Hawthorne, Septimius Felton; or The Elixir of Life, Boston, Mass.: James R[ipley] Osgood and Company...
Forms of abeyancy
| plural | abeyancies |
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Origin of abeyancy
From abeyance + -y.
Questions about abeyancy
- What does abeyancy mean?
- Abeyancy means abeyance.
- What part of speech is abeyancy?
- Abeyancy is a noun.
- How do you pronounce abeyancy?
- Abeyancy is pronounced /əˈbeɪ.ənt.si/ (US).
- What is the plural of abeyancy?
- The plural of abeyancy is abeyancies.
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