expectancy
Noun
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Noun
expectancy
- Expectation or anticipation; the state of expecting something.
- 1599, John Hayward (historian), The First Part of the Life and Raigne of King Henrie IIII. Extending to the end of the first yeare of his raigne, London: John Woolfe, p. 39,
- […] the Dukes dissembled their feares, and dissolued their forces, and remained in expectancie what would ensue.
- 1651, John Milton, The Life and Reigne of King Charls, London: W. Reybold, p. 110,
- If you foresee not this misery, and the fatall consequence which necessarily must follow such a turn of Fortune, I must leave you to your own will and expectancy […]
- 1735, Alexander Pope, Mr. Pope’s Literary Correspondence, London: E. Curll, Volume 2, “The Feast of Trimalchio, Imitaded,” pp. 42-43,
- […] this is generally thought to represent the Vices of Nero, who […] did from the highest Expectancy become a stubborn and a foolish Tyrant.
- 1847, Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre, Chapter 34,
- Renewed hope followed renewed effort: it shone like the former for some weeks, then, like it, it faded, flickered: not a line, not a word reached me. When half a year wasted in vain expectancy, my hope died out, and then I felt dark indeed.
- 1912, Saki, “The Match-Maker” in The Chronicles of Clovis, London: John Lane, p. 23,
- Six minutes later Clovis approached the supper-table, in the blessed expectancy of one who has dined sketchily and long ago.
- 1599, John Hayward (historian), The First Part of the Life and Raigne of King Henrie IIII. Extending to the end of the first yeare of his raigne, London: John Woolfe, p. 39,
- The state of being expected.
- (obsolete) Something expected or awaited.
- circa 1600 William Shakespeare, Hamlet, Act III, Scene 1,
- O, what a noble mind is here o’erthrown!
- The courtier’s, scholar’s, soldier’s, eye, tongue, sword,
- Th’ expectancy and rose of the fair state […]
- 1791, John Trusler, The Habitable World Described, London, for the author, Volume 10, Chapter 9, p. 157,
- […] Frederic II. King of Prussia, in consequence of an expectancy granted to the house of Brandenburg, by the Emperor Leopold in 1604, took possession of East Friezland […]
- circa 1600 William Shakespeare, Hamlet, Act III, Scene 1,
- expectingness (rare)
- French: attente, espérance, expectative
- German: Erwartung
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