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a temporary stop or suspension

His mind floated in abeyance, coming back always to that horrible bottle.
Sinclair Lewis -- Babbitt

I'm giving you time, And until morning I'll hold in abeyance The execution of this conveyance.
Jean-Baptiste Poquelin Moliere -- Tartuffe
Not until then, still numbed and with his powers of reason almost in abeyance, did he remember his camera.
Arthur C. Clarke -- Childhood's End
That was the great and the terrible moment which for long had been in abeyance.
Zane Grey -- The Man of the Forest
But in a very short time, all these efforts at communal legislation fell into abeyance.
Victor Hugo -- The Hunchback of Notre Dame
Sometimes I wasn't sure whether she could add the next word, her throat kept so many other sounds back, in abeyance.
Saul Bellow -- The Adventures of Augie March
Under such circumstances Mr. Raffles's pleasure in annoying his company was kept in abeyance.
George Eliot -- Middlemarch
Tom's severity gave her a certain fund of defiance, and kept her sense of error in abeyance.
George Eliot -- The Mill on the Floss
You have put many things in abeyance to win a war.
Ernest Hemingway -- For Whom the Bell Tolls
Even Old Jacob had to admit that divine displeasure was in abeyance for the time being.
John Wyndham -- The Chrysalids
The beginning of November found its date still in abeyance, though he asked her at the most tempting times.
Thomas Hardy -- Tess of the d'Urbervilles
She asked herself when it would begin, like fire-works, or Lent, or the opera season; not that she cared much, but she wondered what kept it in abeyance.
Henry James -- The Portrait of a Lady - Volumes 1 & 2
The animacy of life hung in abeyance.
Thomas Wolfe -- Look Homeward, Angel
With loneliness in abeyance and with my creative juices in full flow, I could not have been happier ....
William Styron -- Sophie's Choice
Let's hold this story about the defecting boomer in abeyance for the moment, shall we?"
Tom Clancy -- The Hunt for Red October
Logic said the traitor was Yueh, but he held final decision in abeyance.
Frank Herbert -- Dune
Thoughts and emotions relative to the meeting with Tom Doan were held in abeyance.
Zane Grey -- The Thundering Herd
While these affairs were in abeyance, our visit to Mr. Boythorn's was postponed.
Charles Dickens -- Bleak House
She asked herself when it would begin, like fire-works, or Lent, or the opera season; not that she cared much, but she wondered what kept it in abeyance.
Henry James -- The Portrait of a Lady - Volume 2
Just at present the sense of humor is in abeyance.
George Bernard Shaw -- Man And Superman

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