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 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
August heat cannot weaken nor flivvers stale Our first-night expectance when the new season opens.
From The Broadway Anthology by Bernays, Edward L.
Mrs. Munger prompted, with an increase of expectance in her large clear eyes, and of impartiality in her whole face.
From Annie Kilburn : a Novel by Howells, William Dean
