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

If we exercise expectance, and desire and petition and faithful stewardship, we shall get what we need.

From Expositions of Holy Scripture Second Corinthians, Galatians, and Philippians Chapters I to End. Colossians, Thessalonians, and First Timothy. by Maclaren, Alexander

The word which he employs, by its very form, expresses that that expectance is habitual and continuous.

From Expositions of Holy Scripture Ephesians; Epistles of St. Peter and St. John by Maclaren, Alexander

There was a rumor of expectance and pleasure.

From Harper's New Monthly Magazine, No. V, October, 1850, Volume I. by