Hypertext Webster Gateway: "pendency"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Pendency \Pend"en*cy\, n.
1. The quality or state of being pendent or suspended.
2. The quality or state of being undecided, or in
continuance; suspense; as, the pendency of a suit.
--Ayliffe.
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