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

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 Hardy, Thomas

"What do you think of it, Mrs. Stager?" she called to the woman standing respectfully abeyant at one side.

From Fennel and Rue by Howells, William Dean

Hertford returned two burgesses to the parliament of 1298, and to others until, after 1375/6, such right became abeyant, to be restored by order of parliament in 1623/4.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 4 "Hero" to "Hindu Chronology" by Various