(noun) a lapse in succession during which there is no person in whom a title is vested / (noun) temporary inactivity; suspension
a bold measure in principal which is left permanently in abeyance in practice
So long as the situation regarding removal was in abeyance, we had not been able to proceed with many of our pretrial motions
with unions in abeyance, utilities and railways denationalized
class struggle fell into abeyance
the mind putting 'understanding' into abeyance
However, this project remained in abeyance, partly on account of its intrinsic aporias and partly because this was not the main problem to be confronted