Literary notes about abeyant (AI summary)
The term "abeyant" is chiefly used as an adjectival descriptor indicating a state of dormancy or inactivity, often connoting something latent, embryonic, or undeveloped ([1], [2]). In historical contexts, it is applied to peerages, where titles are described as extinct or abeyant, reflecting a status of uncertainty or unresolved claim in both English and Irish records ([3], [4], [5], [6]). In narrative literature, the word is used to signify a temporary suspension or uncertainty, as seen when a character remains inactive or unresponsive in a dynamic scene ([7], [8]), and it is similarly aligned with a sense of indeterminacy or hesitancy in other descriptions ([9], [10]).
- dormant , a. quiescent, latent , inert, inactive , abeyant, torpid .
— from Putnam's Word Book A Practical Aid in Expressing Ideas Through the Use of an Exact and Varied Vocabulary by Louis A. (Louis Andrew) Flemming - undeveloped , a. in embryo , embryonic, immature , abeyant, embryo , imperfect ; atrophied, dwarfed,
— from Putnam's Word Book A Practical Aid in Expressing Ideas Through the Use of an Exact and Varied Vocabulary by Louis A. (Louis Andrew) Flemming - Extinct and Abeyant Peerages of England, according to titles.
— from Memoirs of the Court and Cabinets of George the Third From the Original Family Documents, Volume 2 by Buckingham and Chandos, Richard Plantagenet Temple Nugent Brydges Chandos Grenville, Duke of - Peerages of Ireland, extinct and abeyant, alphabetically, according to Titles.
— from Memoirs of the Court and Cabinets of George the Third From the Original Family Documents, Volume 2 by Buckingham and Chandos, Richard Plantagenet Temple Nugent Brydges Chandos Grenville, Duke of - Sun. SIR B. BURKE'S DICTIONARY OF THE EXTINCT, DORMANT, AND ABEYANT PEERAGES OF ENGLAND, SCOTLAND AND IRELAND.
— from The Monarchs of the Main; Or, Adventures of the Buccaneers. Volume 1 (of 3) by Walter Thornbury - [Pg 8] BURKE'S DICTIONARY OF THE EXTINCT, DORMANT, & ABEYANT PEERAGES OF ENGLAND, SCOTLAND, AND IRELAND.
— from Memoirs of the Court and Cabinets of George the Third From the Original Family Documents, Volume 2 by Buckingham and Chandos, Richard Plantagenet Temple Nugent Brydges Chandos Grenville, Duke of - she called to the woman standing respectfully abeyant at one side.
— from Fennel and Rue by William Dean Howells - The girl sat, all else abeyant, listening.
— from The House of Fulfilment by George Madden Martin - Adj. latent; lurking &c.v.; secret &c. 528; occult; implied &c. v.; dormant; abeyant.
— from Roget's Thesaurus by Peter Mark Roget - undetermined , a. unsettled , irresolute , wavering , indeterminate, abeyant.
— from Putnam's Word Book A Practical Aid in Expressing Ideas Through the Use of an Exact and Varied Vocabulary by Louis A. (Louis Andrew) Flemming
