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
Look on those Tunis-engagers, who were timely drawn From their trepanning course, and by their hazard, Secur'd through valour, rais'd their ruin'd fortunes Above expectance!
From A Select Collection of Old English Plays Volume 14 of 15 by Robert Dodsley
How tedious morns these be in our expectance Of what we tender most?
From A Select Collection of Old English Plays Volume 14 of 15 by Robert Dodsley
The one girl stood erectly in the skiff, her hand resting on the rudder; she looked in curious expectance at the persistent pursuer, while the other girl rowed on with stolid indifference.
From Withered Leaves. Vol. I. (of III) A Novel by Rudolf von Gottschall
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