expectance
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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 Mary White Ovington
And less I feel the grief of former wrong Than shudder with expectance of fresh harm They yet may work on me.
From The Seven Plays in English Verse by Sophocles
Take advantage of his absence, Mark; it is a grace that God gives thee beyond expectance.
From Woodstock; or, the Cavalier by Sir Walter Scott
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