26 January 2018
abeyance
[uh-bey-uh ns]
noun
1. temporary inactivity, cessation, or suspension:
Let’s hold that problem in abeyance for a while.
2. Law. a state or condition of real property in which title is not as yet vested in a known titleholder:
an estate in abeyance.
Origin of abeyance
Anglo-French, Old French
1520-1530; < Anglo-French; Old French abeance aspiration, literally, a gaping at or toward. See a-5, bay2, -ance
Synonyms
1. remission, deferral.
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Examples from the Web for abeyance
Contemporary Examples
The court will then hold the eleven felony allocutions in abeyance.
Inside the ‘PayPal 14’ Trial
Alexa O’Brien
December 6, 2013
Historical Examples
“The punishment lies in abeyance for the present,” explained Hamish.
The Channings
Mrs. Henry Wood
It would have been hard to bear had she not known what a triumph she held in abeyance.
A Singer from the Sea
Amelia Edith Huddleston Barr
Anagram
a cane bye
Today’s quote
When people didn’t feel guilt, they built empires. When they began to feel guilt, they lost them. Look at the British.
– Mario Reading, from The Nostradamus Prophecies
On this day
26 January 1788 – Australia Day – Having landed in Sydney Cove a few days earlier, Captain Arthur Phillip plants the British flag and declares possession of the land in the name of King George III of Britain.
26 January 1808 – The Rum Rebellion: Twenty years after establishing the colony of New South Wales, the only successful military coup in Australia’s history results in the New South Wales Corps deposing the Governor of NSW, William Bligh. For the following two years, the colony was under military rule, until the arrival of new Governor, Major-General Lachlan Macquarie. At the time, it was referred to as the Great Rebellion. The rebellion was over a disagreement between the government and private entrepreneurs regarding the future of the colony. The government wanted to keep it as an open prison with a primitive economy. Years later, an English Quaker named William Howitt, a tee-totaller, looking to blame the ills of the world on alcohol, claimed the rebellion was about Bligh threatening the profits made from the Army’s trading of spirits. He coined the term ‘Rum Rebellion’.
26 January 1939 – During the Spanish Civil War, Nationalist forces loyal to General Francisco Franco enter Barcelona, overthrowing the Republican forces headquartered there.
26 January 1945 – Soviet troops liberate 7,000 survivors of the Auschwitz network of concentration camps in Poland.
26 January 1950 – India becomes a republic, freed from British rule. The new President, Dr Rajenda Prasad had campaigned with Mahatma Gandhi for Indian self-rule. Jawaharlal Nehru becomes the country’s first Prime Minister on 10 February 1952.
26 January 1965 – Hindi becomes the official language of India.
26 January 1988 – Andrew Lloyd Webber’s ‘Phantom of the Opera’ opens on Broadway for its first performance. The musical becomes a world-wide smash and is the longest running show on Broadway.