expectance
- a variation of expectancy.
Example Sentences
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“A stasis develops between expectance and realization,” he wrote of a piece in 1971.
From Washington Post ● May 13, 2020
It conveyed all the tension, expectance and suspense.
From Golf Digest ● Sep. 4, 2012
There was a rumor of expectance and pleasure.
From Harper's New Monthly Magazine, No. V, October, 1850, Volume I. by
Every social circle has its talkers, who hang upon each other's periods in expectance of the moment when they can successfully push in their own word.
From Roden's Corner by Merriman, Henry Seton
That need not affect the attitude of expectance, for it comes to substantially the same thing whether Christ comes to us or we go to Him.
From Expositions of Holy Scripture St. Luke by Maclaren, Alexander
