abeyance vs break-off

abeyance

noun
  • Suspension; temporary suppression; dormant condition. 

  • Expectancy of a title, its right in existence but its exercise suspended. 

  • Expectancy; a condition when an ownership of real property is undetermined; lapse in succession of ownership of estate, or title. 

break-off

noun
  • A break, discontinuance, or interruption 

  • That which breaks off, or is broken off 

  • The first shot in a game of snooker or other cue-game 

verb
  • To play the first shot in a game of snooker 

How often have the words abeyance and break-off occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )