'abeyance' in The Recognitions | 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

they stood side by side, sustaining a perilous abeyance between them, and weighing the room before them in the balance

—p.656 PART II (279) by William Gaddis

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