'abeyance' in Patricia Highsmith: Her Diaries and Notebooks: 1941-1995 | Bookmarker

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(noun) a lapse in succession during which there is no person in whom a title is vested / (noun) temporary inactivity; suspension

I am in a state of cowed abeyance, like someone who has been whipped—or laid low after pride.

—p.675 1951–1962: Living Between the United States and Europe (503) by Patricia Highsmith

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