abeyance

The court will then hold the eleven felony allocutions in abeyance.

Or were they merely orthodox through a more uneven balancing of their qualities, the animal in abeyance?

My own direct correspondence with Mr. Baxter is now about three months in abeyance.

Fettes, with various liquors singing in his head, returned home with devious footsteps and a mind entirely in abeyance.

Dashwood retired with Bute and the barony of Despencer was called out of abeyance in his favour.

Still, public feeling was so strong that by the middle of the century the laws had almost fallen into abeyance.