Subvert vs Abeyance - What's the difference?
subvert | abeyance |
To overturn from the foundation; to overthrow; to ruin utterly.
* Shakespeare
* John Locke
To pervert, as the mind, and turn it from the truth; to corrupt; to confound.
To upturn convention from the foundation by undermining it (literally, to turn from beneath).
(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.
As nouns the difference between subvert and abeyance
is that subvert is an advertisement created by subvertising while abeyance is (legal) expectancy; condition of ownership of real property being undetermined; lapse in succession of ownership of estate, or title .As a verb subvert
is to overturn from the foundation; to overthrow; to ruin utterly.subvert
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) subverten, from (etyl) subvertir, from (etyl) .Verb
(en verb)- He razeth your cities, and subverts your towns.
- This would subvert the principles of all knowledge.
- A dictator stays in power only as long as he manages to subvert the will of his people.
Derived terms
* subversion * subversiveEtymology 2
, by analogy with advert.Synonyms
* subvertisementabeyance
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.