different between abeyance vs disuse

English

Etymology

First 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 bat? (“to yawn”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??be?.?ns/

Noun

abeyance (countable and uncountable, plural abeyances)

1. (law) Expectancy; condition of ownership of real property being undetermined; lapse in succession of ownership of estate, or title. [Late 16^th century]
2. Suspension; temporary suppression; dormant condition. [Mid 17^th century]
3. (heraldry) Expectancy of a title, its right in existence but its exercise suspended.

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References

English

Etymology

From Old French desuser.

Pronunciation

• (US) IPA^(key): /d?s?jus/

Noun

disuse (uncountable)

1. The state of not being used; neglect.

   The garden fell into disuse and became overgrown.

Derived terms

• disused

Translations

Verb

disuse (third-person singular simple present disuses, present participle disusing, simple past and past participle disused)

1. (transitive) To cease the use of.
   • 1790, Edmond Malone, The Plays and Poems of William Shakespeare, London: H. Baldwin, Volume I, p. 194, footnote [1]

     Whether in process of time Shakspeare grew weary of the bondage of rhyme, or whether he became convinced of its impropriety in a dramatick dialogue, his neglect of rhyming (for he never wholly disused it) seems to have been gradual.

   • 1792, Cruelty the natural and inseparable Consequence of Slavery, preached March 11, 1792, at Hemel-Hempstead, Herts. By John Liddon, in The Monthly Review, May to August, Volume VIII, p. 238, [2]

     The author does not fail to recommend the practice, adopted, it is said, by many thousands in the kingdom, of disusing the West India produce.

2. (transitive, archaic) To disaccustom.

   He was disused to hard work.

   • 1597, John Donne, "The Calm," lines 39-44, [3]

     Whether a rotten state, and hope of gaine, / Or to disuse mee from the queasie paine / Of being belov'd, and loving, or the thirst / Of honour, or faire death, out pusht mee first, / I lose my end: for here as well as I / A desperate may live, and a coward die.

Anagrams

• issued