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anticipation

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anticipation
Music an unstressed, usually short note introduced before a downbeat and harmonically related to the chord immediately following it

anticipation [an‚tis·ə′pā·shən]
(genetics)
The occurrence of a phenotype at a younger age or in a more severe form in succeeding generations of a family.


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Only the poet or the saint can water an asphalt pavement in the confident anticipation that lilies will reward his labour.
By the time they have lounged up and down the promenade of the Equator awhile, they start for the Oriental waters in anticipation of the cool season there, and so evade the other excessive temperature of the year.
"Love" then becomes "the anticipation of benefits"; "duty" becomes "necessity" or "fitness"; and other words are correspondingly transmuted.
 
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