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pendency|ˈpɛndənsɪ|
Also 7 -ancie.
[f. pendent: see -ency.]
1. The state or condition of being pending or continuing undecided, or awaiting settlement.
1637J. Williams Holy Table 43 They would not serve his turn even in that pendancie. 1726Ayliffe Parergon 79 Nor can the Appellant alledge Pendency of Suit before the Judge a Quo. 1848Arnould Mar. Insur. i. iii. (1866) I. 102 At any time during the pendency of the risk. 1850E. S. Seymour Sk. Minnesota xii. 208 Out of this arose one or two unsuccessful arbitrations. During their pendency the mills came into the possession of the Boston Company. 1972N.Y. Law Jrnl. 22 Aug. 6/1 Section 1830.12 Petitions; content; pendency of prior proceeding. 1979‘A. Hailey’ Overload ii. iii. 119 During the pendency of the case, surely there were backstage discussions with commission staff?
2. Pendent position; droopingness, droop. rare.
1770T. Whately Mod. Gardening 142 Two or three groupes of large trees, feathering down to the bottom, and by the pendency of their branches favouring the declivity. 1831S. Warren Diary Physic. vii, Her head covered with a velvet cap, over which drooped in snowy pendency, an ostrich feather. |