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noun

Expectancy, Expectance n.

The act of expecting; expectation.

That which is expected, or looked or waited for with interest; the object of expectation or hope. "The expectancy and rose of the fair state."

Estate in expectancy (Law), one the possession of which a person is entitled to have at some future time, either as a remainder or reversion, or on the death of some one.

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Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Expectancy" Quotes from Famous Books

... earth that the young engineer had caused to be thrown up round the spot facing the river all along its right bank, the men catching up their rifles and cartridge-pouches—which lay here and there about as they had dropped them in their expectancy while waiting the result of the weighing—as they ran to shelter themselves and prepared to return the fire ...

— Picked up at Sea - The Gold Miners of Minturne Creek • J.C. Hutcheson

... soft-limbed. She wore a dress of dark-blue silky stuff, with ruches of blue and green linen lace in the neck and sleeves; and she had emerald-green stockings. Her look of confidence and diffidence contrasted with Ursula's sensitive expectancy. The provincial people, intimidated by Gudrun's perfect sang-froid and exclusive bareness of manner, said of her: 'She is a smart woman.' She had just come back from London, where she had spent several years, working at an art-school, as a student, ...

— Women in Love • D. H. Lawrence

... time for everything, Pixie reflected, and it did not seem a judicious moment for a hostess to indulge in heroics, what time the members of her house-party were advancing to meet her with faces wreathed in expectancy. They made a goodly picture in the spring sunshine—the little trim girl and the two tall men attired in the easy country kit which is so becoming to the Anglo-Saxon type. The young hostess looked at them and ...

— The Love Affairs of Pixie • Mrs George de Horne Vaizey

... a chafing-dish meal were spread upon a small table, and silence brooded over all. It was only when Mark and Billy stood at the door that Thornly turned. The look of expectancy died in his eyes as he saw the weather-beaten countenance of Billy, and the ...

— Janet of the Dunes • Harriet T. Comstock

... she exclaimed, and was silent a moment, looking at me. Then:—'You feel there's something wrong?' still looking at me, very quietly but with a little, nervous note of questioning expectancy. ...

— Carnacki, The Ghost Finder • William Hope Hodgson

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