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/ɪkspˈɛktənsi/ Listen

noun

Expectancy, Expectance n.

The act of expecting; expectation.

That which is expected, or looked or waited for with interest; the object of expectation or hope. "The expectancy and rose of the fair state."

Estate in expectancy (Law), one the possession of which a person is entitled to have at some future time, either as a remainder or reversion, or on the death of some one.

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Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Expectancy" Quotes from Famous Books

... week she had looked forward to this tea-drinking with tremors of joyous expectancy and palpitations of alarm. It was to have been one of those rare and solitary occasions that can only come once in a blue moon. The lump sum of pleasure that other people get spread for them more or less thickly over the surface of the ...

— Superseded • May Sinclair

... half-a-dozen other Rosemonters, a committee to furnish "greens" for garlanding the walls and doorways, hurried about in an expectancy and perturbation, now gay, now grave, that seemed quite excessive as the mere precursors of an evening dance. They gathered their greenery from the grove down beyond the old bridge and ravine, where the ground was an unbroken web ...

— John March, Southerner • George W. Cable

... had preceded the calling of the meeting to order, and only by restraint were the opening exercises endured, reports heard, and suggestions for the winter's work discussed. These over, with a sigh of expectancy or anxiety, according to temperament, the ladies settled down to their sewing, and chairs were drawn closer ...

— Miss Gibbie Gault • Kate Langley Bosher

... his hands on his hips, his head inclined towards his right shoulder, and an insolent leer of expectancy upon his face. ...

— Bardelys the Magnificent • Rafael Sabatini

... publicly he had been regarded, both by himself and others, as the heir of his all-powerful uncle. The death of this child, on which occasion adulatory verses were produced by the university of Cambridge, restored Sidney, the year before his death, to this brilliant expectancy; and it cannot reasonably be doubted, that the academic honors paid to his memory were, like the court-mourning, a homage to the power of the living rather than the virtues of the dead. But though he should be judged to have owed to his connexion with a royal ...

— Memoirs of the Court of Queen Elizabeth • Lucy Aikin

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