expectance
Example Sentences
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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 Henry, Alice
Fright, on the other hand, seems really to possess a special meaning, which emphasizes the effects of a danger which is precipitated without any expectance or readiness of fear.
From A General Introduction to Psychoanalysis by Freud, Sigmund
Every social circle has its talkers, who hang upon each other's periods in expectance of the moment when they can successfully push in their own word.
From Roden's Corner by Merriman, Henry Seton
