abeyant
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Touring the pits with Ahlum was like visiting the abeyant ghosts of my childhood.
From New York Times ● Oct. 23, 2019
We stood, abeyant, ready to receive what shock fate should administer.
From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves" by M.T. Anderson
"What do you think of it, Mrs. Stager?" she called to the woman standing respectfully abeyant at one side.
From Fennel and Rue by William Dean Howells
He was what was called at Hintock "a solid-going fellow;" he maintained his abeyant mood, not from want of reciprocity, but from a taciturn hesitancy, taught by life as he knew it.
From The Woodlanders by Thomas Hardy
The wild romanticist, the lover of the strange and the lurid and the grotesque who created the "Symphonic Fantastique," never, perhaps, became entirely abeyant.
From Musical Portraits Interpretations of Twenty Modern Composers by Paul Rosenfeld
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