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Expectation

noun

Belief about (or mental picture of) the future. Synonyms: outlook, prospect.

Anticipating with confidence of fulfillment. Synonym: anticipation.

The feeling that something is about to happen.

The sum of the values of a random variable divided by the number of values. Synonyms: arithmetic mean, expected value, first moment.

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"Expectation" Quotes from Famous Books

... religion? What motives can men have to offer their homage and worship to the Divinity? Why should they feel much desire to love or serve a master who can absolve himself of all duty towards those who entered his service with an expectation of the ...

— Letters to Eugenia - or, a Preservative Against Religious Prejudices • Baron d'Holbach

... fact that the Jews cherished a belief in the coming of a Messiah and the establishment of God's kingdom here on earth and among men. You are not so well aware, perhaps, unless you have made a study of it, that a belief like this has not been confined to the Jews. In many other nations a similar expectation has been cherished. We find it, for example, among some of the tribes of our North American Indians. It is world-wide, in other words, in its range. It is no peculiarity of the Jews. But let us confine ourselves a moment ...

— Our Unitarian Gospel • Minot Savage

... a few minutes. Her mother was standing up, watching with pleased expectation the movements of Mr. Carlyle. No candles were in the room, but it ...

— East Lynne • Mrs. Henry Wood

... this Sonnet was written, the Subject of it had languished three years beneath repeated paralytic strokes, which had greatly enfeebled his limbs, and impaired his understanding. Contrary to all expectation he survived three more years, subject, through their progress, to the same frequent and dreadful attacks, though in their intervals he was serene and apparently ...

— Original sonnets on various subjects; and odes paraphrased from Horace • Anna Seward

... mate, went forward and gave some order in a low tone. More sails were taken in, all in a solemn and quiet manner. The brig now lay motionless on the water while an uneasy expectation of something threatening seemed to hang overhead. The suspense was terrible. Captain Dodge paced silently up and down the deck but he spoke to no one and no one spoke to him. It was now so dark it was almost impossible to see the length ...

— The Go Ahead Boys and the Treasure Cave • Ross Kay

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