- a variation of expectancy.
expectance
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 moment is much too awful, the expectance much too sublime, for any such human, girlish emotions.
From Legends of the Madonna as Represented in the Fine Arts by Mrs. (Anna) Jameson
And less I feel the grief of former wrong Than shudder with expectance of fresh harm They yet may work on me.
From The Seven Plays in English Verse by Sophocles
By desire, by expectance, by petition, by faithful stewardship.
From Expositions of Holy Scripture Second Corinthians, Galatians, and Philippians Chapters I to End. Colossians, Thessalonians, and First Timothy. by Alexander Maclaren
