abeyant

How To Use abeyant In A Sentence

• But when restraints to which he had long been accustomed and to which he yielded passive obedience were removed, and he was left in a condition of license, all the abeyant passions of his undisciplined nature were brought into prominence and antagonism with an environment where reciprocal obligations have not always found their highest expression. The American Negro: What He Was, What He Is, and What He May Become: A Critical and Practical Discussion
• In 1986 Her Majesty agreed to comply with the advice proffered to her by the Lords regarding abeyant peerages.
• Where other, more vigorous incentives are abeyant they can be expected to assume increased prominence.
• All Basset titles became abeyant or extinct before publication of the series began.
• He was well descended and well connected (there was an abeyant peerage in his family), but in point of fact, his social position was not better than that of some other boys in the school. Philip Gilbert Hamerton
• A Tibetan Mastiff is also a awful, 1 accomplished, 1 sheep bouncer, 1 and keeps any abeyant, 1 threats at bay, and are also good nocturnal guards.
• He was nervously fingering the few coins in his pocket; but he had a curiously abeyant sense, as though he were looking, waiting for the climax. Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine
• This page lists baronetcies, whether extant, extinct, dormant, unproven, under review, abeyant, or forfeit, in the baronetages of England, Nova Scotia, Great Britain, Ireland and the United Kingdom.
• So I believe that this ancient and storied office is once again abeyant.
• He was what was called at Hintock “a solid-going fellow;” he maintained his abeyant mood, not from want of reciprocity, but from The Woodlanders