- a variation of expectancy.
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
How all would be hushed in expectance of the next moment's act!
From Expositions of Holy Scripture St. John Chapters I to XIV by Alexander Maclaren
Sometimes the child stole back from the kitchen or the barn, and peeped in upon her with a roguish expectance which her gloomy stare defeated, and then it ran off again.
From Annie Kilburn : a Novel by William Dean Howells
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