expect
verb (used with object)
to look forward to; regard as likely to happen; anticipate the occurrence or the coming of.
expecter
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a word derived from
expect.
Example Sentences
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"Great expecter," says Thoreau; "great feller," says Sam Staples, "for talkin' big ... but his daughters is the gals though—always DOIN' somethin'."
From Essays Before a Sonata by Charles Ives
Whenever I see my Friend I speak to him; but the expecter, the man with the ears, is not he.
From A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers by Henry David Thoreau
