- 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
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 Alexander Maclaren
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
The dumb misery of a terrible expectance held every faculty in its iron grasp.
From The Mystery of a Turkish Bath by Rita
