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Abeyant (adj) means Temporarily on hold or suspended.

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Temporarily on hold or suspended.

"So even where extraordinary circumstances render civilian courts abeyant, the civilian law must be reintroduced as soon as the emergency ends." — William Nester, Total War (2013)

"Having placed an abeyant death sentence on Corde's head, he turned his attention to Bose, who, for his part, looked vapid and without a shred of malice or machinatory instinct about him, a soft toy in the great department store of life." — Jonathan L. Howard, In which there is a Battle and Cabal Makes It Quick (2013)

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