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 Jameson, Mrs. (Anna)
The mercies of God are great, and His patient expectance of us, granting time and occasions and motives to repent, is most gracious and full of longanimity.
From The Condition of Catholics Under James I. by Gerard, John
Mute sat Giray, with downcast eye, As though some spell in sorrow bound him, His slavish courtiers thronging nigh, In sad expectance stood around him.
From The Bakchesarian Fountain and Other Poems by Derzhavin, Gavrila Romanovich
