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Dormancy   /dˈɔrmənsi/   Listen
noun
Dormancy  n.  The state of being dormant; quiescence; abeyance.


Dormancy  n.  
1.
The state of being dormant; quiescence; abeyance. "It is by lying dormant a long time, or being... very rarely exercised, that arbitrary power steals upon a people."
2.
(Her.) In a sleeping posture; as, a lion dormant; distinguished from couchant.
Dormant partner (Com.), a partner who takes no share in the active business of a company or partnership, but is entitled to a share of the profits, and subject to a share in losses; called also sleeping partner or silent partner.
Dormant window (Arch.), a dormer window. See Dormer.
Table dormant, a stationary table. (Obs.)





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"Dormancy" Quotes from Famous Books



... first too dangerous to touch. Moreover, he was at that moment in a period of transition, pestered by Minta to give up "the poachin'," and yet drawn back to it after his spring and summer of field work by instincts only recently revived, after long dormancy, ...
— Marcella • Mrs. Humphry Ward


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