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
The dumb misery of a terrible expectance held every faculty in its iron grasp.
From The Mystery of a Turkish Bath by Rita
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 John Gerard
How tedious morns these be in our expectance Of what we tender most?
From A Select Collection of Old English Plays Volume 14 of 15 by Robert Dodsley
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