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
But psychology has shown us that suggestion or expectance forms one element in the developing of faculty, and this whether it be manual dexterity, quickness of memory or exercise of judgment and initiative.
From The Trade Union Woman by Alice Henry
"No, I didn't," said Annie, obliged by this expectance to say something.
From Annie Kilburn : a Novel by William Dean Howells
The dumb misery of a terrible expectance held every faculty in its iron grasp.
From The Mystery of a Turkish Bath by Rita
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