Abeyance vs Fleeting - What's the difference?
abeyance | fleeting |
(legal) Expectancy; condition of ownership of real property being undetermined; lapse in succession of ownership of estate, or title.
Suspension; temporary suppression; dormant condition.
* 2003 , (Bill Bryson), A Short History of Nearly Everything , BCA 2003, page 376:
(heraldry) Expectancy of a title, its right in existence but its exercise suspended.
Passing quickly.
* 1931 , Martha Kinross, "The Screen — From This Side", The Fortnightly , Volume 130,
* 2003 , Gabrielle Walker, Snowball Earth: The Story of a Maverick Scientist and His Theory of the Global Catastrophe That Spawned Life As We Know It , Three Rivers Press (2003), ISBN 1400051258,
* 2008 , Barbara L. Bellman & Susan Goldstein, Flirting After Fifty: Lessons for Grown-Up Women on How to Find Love Again , iUniverse (2008), ISBN 9780595428281,
* 2010 , Leslie Ludy, The Lost Art of True Beauty: The Set-Apart Girl's Guide to Feminine Grace , Harvest House Publishers (2010), ISBN 9780736922906,
As a noun abeyance
is (legal) expectancy; condition of ownership of real property being undetermined; lapse in succession of ownership of estate, or title .As an adjective fleeting is
passing quickly.As a verb fleeting is
.abeyance
English
Noun
(en noun)- The proceeds of the estate shall be held in abeyance in an escrow account until the minor reaches age twenty-one.
- When there is no person in existence in whom an inheritance (or a dignity) can vest, it is said to be in abeyance . -Blackstone
- Without a plausible explanation for what might have provoked an ice age, the whole theory fell into abeyance .
- The broad pennant of a commodore first class has been in abeyance since 1958, together with the rank.
References
fleeting
English
Adjective
(en adjective)page 511:
- Architecture, sculpture, painting are static arts. Even in literature "our flying minds," as George Meredith says, cannot contain protracted description. It is so; for from sequences of words they must assemble all the details in one simultaneous impression. But moments of fleeting beauty too transient to be caught by any means less swift than light itself are registered on the screen.
pages 34-35:
- During the fleeting summer months of his field season, when the outer vestiges of winter melted briefly, there were ponds and pools and lakes of water everywhere.
page 12:
- For starters, we see examples all the time of some middle-aged men trying to hang onto their own fleeting youth by sporting younger women on their arms.
page 5:
- And I am inspired afresh to pursue the stunning beauty of Christ rather than the fleeting beauty of this world.