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
Though she only said "perhaps," her face brightened and she looked with pleased expectance at this young man who had brought so much happiness and jollity into her life.
From The Shadow by Ovington, Mary White
In all probability, too, this element of expectance has indirect as well as direct effects, and the indirect are not the least fruitful in results.
From The Trade Union Woman by Henry, Alice
The attitude of expectance is as much the duty and support of Christians as of Israel.
From Expositions of Holy Scripture Isaiah and Jeremiah by Maclaren, Alexander
