a 1 b 3 e 1 y 4 a 1 n 1 c 3 e 1
8 letters · 15 points in Scrabble
Meaning
noun temporary cessation or suspension
originFirst attested in 1528. From Anglo-Norman abeiance (“legal expectation”), from Old French abeance (“desire”) from abeër (“to gape at, aspire after”), abaer, abair (“to desire”), from a (“to”) + baër (“to gape”), bair (“yawn”), from Medieval Latin batō (“to yawn”).
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