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
The moment is much too awful, the expectance much too sublime, for any such human, girlish emotions.
From Legends of the Madonna as Represented in the Fine Arts by Jameson, Mrs. (Anna)
All nature seemed rich and glowing with the deep expectance of my heart.
From Aylwin by Watts-Dunton, Theodore
Take advantage of his absence, Mark; it is a grace that God gives thee beyond expectance.
From Woodstock; or, the Cavalier by Scott, Walter, Sir
