Definitions
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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Used as a crossword answer1 curated clues
01“Anticipation”10 letters
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