Crossword-Solution: ABEYANCE 8 letters, 103 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 15

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Word Word Type Definition
Abeyance n. Expectancy; condition of being undetermined.
Abeyance n. Suspension; temporary suppression.

We have 103 clues for the answer “ABEYANCE”

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SUSPENSE, state of 1 answer
SUSPENSION, state of 1 answer
State of limbo 1 answer
state of being suspended 1 answer
Suspended state 2 answers
Temporary inactivity 2 answers
Temporary pause 2 answers
Temporary stop 2 answers
quiescency 2 answers
Temporary cessation 3 answers
Temporary suspension 3 answers
disuse 9 answers
A PERIOD OF INACTIVITY 10 answers
A REVIVAL FROM INACTIVITY AND DISUSE 10 answers
BE MOTIONLESS, IN SUSPENSION 10 answers
limbo 11 answers
Quiescence 17 answers
latency 17 answers
Adjourn 29 answers
cancelling 32 answers
inactivating 32 answers
inactivation 32 answers
remanet 36 answers
PASSIVE state 40 answers
cold storage 40 answers
tabling 41 answers
Deferring 42 answers
putting off 42 answers
shelving 42 answers
moratorium 43 answers
interregnum 44 answers
Doing nothing 46 answers
Procrastination. 49 answers
demurral 49 answers
Delaying 51 answers
Adjournment 52 answers
Doldrums 54 answers
drowsiness 58 answers
tarrying 58 answers
Thoughtlessness? 59 answers
interlude 59 answers
Cancellation 61 answers
languorousness 61 answers
slothfulness 62 answers
Inertia 63 answers
Sluggishness 63 answers
Lassitude 64 answers
discontinuity 64 answers
inattentiveness 65 answers
Lapse 65 answers
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
RTAEE
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with ABEYANCE (5)

The type-writer girl had lingered too, as if she wished to speak with him, and Corey stood in abeyance as she went toward Lapham's door.
The Rise of Silas Lapham William Dean Howells 2008
There’s a faculty pleasant to exercise, hard to hoodwink, I am fain to keep still in abeyance (I laugh as I think), Lest, insisting to claim and parade in it, wot ye, I worst {260} E’en the Giver in one gift.--Behold, I could love if I durst! But I sink the pretension as fearing a man may o’ertake God’s own speed in the one way of love: I abstain for love’s sake.
Introduction to Robert Browning Hiram Corson 2008
Gormer’s native indolence, and the attitude of her companions, kept in habitual abeyance, were now germinating afresh in the glow of Bertha’s advances; and whatever the cause of the latter, Lily saw that, if they were followed up, they were likely to have a disturbing effect upon her own future.
The house of Mirth Edith Wharton 1995
His limbs were of paper, his mind quite in abeyance; I must uphold and guide him, prevent his frantic dives, and set him continually on his legs again.
St. Ives Robert Louis Stevenson 2010
Presently the dory grated on the pebbles, and Johnny Bowden, who had been kept in abeyance during the voyage, sprang out and used manful exertions to haul us up with the next wave, so that Mrs.
The Country of the Pointed Firs Sarah Orne Jewett 2008

Quotes with ABEYANCE (3)

... quantum mechanics — the physics of our world — requires that you hold such pedestrian complaints in abeyance.
Brian Greene The Elegant Universe: Superstrings, Hidden Dimensions, and the Quest for the Ultimate Theory
The doctrine that war is always a greater evil seems to imply a materialist ethic, a belief that death and pain are the greatest evils. But I do not think they are... All men die, and most men miserably. That two soldiers on opposite sides, each believing his own country to be in the right, each at the moment when his selfishness is most in abeyance and his will to sacrifice in the ascendant, should kill [each] other in plain battle seems to me by no means one of the most ter…
C. S. Lewis
We will always be black, you and I, even if it means different things in different places. France is built on its own dream, on its collection of bodies, and recall that your very name is drawn from a man who opposed France and its national project of theft by colonization. It is true that our color was not our distinguishing feature there, so much as the Americanness represented in our poor handle on French. And it is true that there is something particular about how the Ame…
Ta Nahesi Coates
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Appears in: Boston Globe, CrosSynergy, LAT, Universal, USA TODAY, WSJ.

Used 12 times in crossword archives (2000–2018).