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expectancy

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"Anticipation"

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10 lettersPronunciation /ɪkˈspɛkt(ə)nsi/Part of speech nounSorted acceenptxyStarts with EEnds with Y1 cluesCommon crossword word
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Definitions

  1. something expected (as on the basis of a norm)

Word origin

From expectant + -cy or expect + -ancy.

Used in a sentence

  • [T]he Dukes dissembled their feares, and dissolued their forces, and remained in expectancie what would ensue.
  • If you foresee not this misery, and the fatall consequence which necessarily must follow such a turn of Fortune, I must leave you to your own will and expectancy […]
  • [T]his is generally thought to repreſent the Vices of Nero, vvho […] did from the higheſt Expectancy become a ſtubborn and a fooliſh Tyrant.

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