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expectancy

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expectancy, expectance
the prospect of a future interest or possession, esp in property


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While they waited in breathless expectancy out came a Mouse.
The man could not rightly understand: he thought himself deaf; said so, and heard his own voice, although it had an unfamiliar quality that almost alarmed him; it disappointed his ear's expectancy in the matter of timbre and resonance.
There was an atmosphere of endeavour, of expectancy and bright hopefulness about the young college that had lifted its head from the prairie only a few years before.
 
 
 
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