abeyant

Meanings

1. 1
   adj

   temporarily suspended or in a state of latency

   The claim to the title remained abeyant for years.

From abeyance, from Anglo-Norman abeiance ('expectation, suspension'), from Old French abeance ('aspiration, expectation'), from abaer ('to aspire after, gape at'), from a- (ad-, 'to') + baer ('to gape'), from Late Latin batāre.

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