expectancy
noun
the quality or state of expecting; expectation; anticipatory belief or desire.
expectance
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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
The one girl stood erectly in the skiff, her hand resting on the rudder; she looked in curious expectance at the persistent pursuer, while the other girl rowed on with stolid indifference.
From Withered Leaves. Vol. I. (of III) A Novel by Rudolf von Gottschall
This is the spirit of a joyous but devoutly grateful expectance, in which I would have myself approach the reading of a great book.
From The Booklover and His Books by Harry Lyman Koopman
Let the distant reader imagine an audience of three thousand persons awaiting in breathless expectance the entrance upon the Park-stage of this great Master.
From The Knickerbocker, or New-York Monthly Magazine, January 1844 Volume 23, Number 1 by Various
