Converse of object

• terminate: She petitioned the King to terminate the abeyance in her favor.

Preposition: at

• present: Second Centenary Party to be left in abeyance at present.

Preposition: during

• period: But these rights are in abeyance during the period of pupillage or nonage.

Noun used with modifier

• security: My most recent article on security abeyance has been recently published in the British Journal of Management.

Preposition: until

• procedure: Any further departmental consideration of that piece of work shall be held in abeyance until the procedures set out below have been completed.

Preposition: for

• time: Chairman asked whether this matter could be held in abeyance for the time being, Council agreed.

• year: The Romans had massive aqueducts for transporting water over large distances but their skills fell into abeyance for 1500 years.