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1) в состоянии ожидания, неизвестности, неопределённости (обыкн. употр. с гл. to be)I was, at least, so sunk in sadness that I scarce remarked where I was going; and chance (or some finer sense that lives in us, and only guides us when the mind is in abeyance) conducted my steps into a quarter of the island where the birds were few. (R. L. Stevenson and L. Osbourne, ‘The Wrecker’, ch. XV) — Я был так опечален, что едва замечал, куда иду, и случайно (а может быть, благодаря тому чувству, которое руководит нами, когда рассудок безмолвствует) направил шаги в ту часть острова, где птиц было немного.
The sardonic quality was, however, quite in abeyance. (D. H. Lawrence, ‘The Lost Girl’, ch. 2) — Язвительность, свойственная Алвине, внешне, однако, никак не проявлялась.
The key question of political power - the winning of new states for or against slavery - was in abeyance for most of the three decades between 1820 and 1850... (W. Foster, ‘The Negro People in American History’, ch. 13) — Важнейший вопрос политической власти - привлечение новых штатов в лагерь сторонников или противников рабовладения - оставался нерешенным на протяжении почти 30 лет, с 1820 по 1850 год...
2) без владельца, без претендента ( о собственности или наследственном титуле)The land was in abeyance for several years. — В течение нескольких лет никто не претендовал на эту землю.
3) временно отменённый (о законе, праве на что-л.)This law was in abeyance for many years. — Этот закон не применялся много лет.
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