expectancy

Definition

Expectation or anticipation; the state of expecting something.

Etymology

From expectant + -cy or expect + -ancy.

Example Sentences

• "[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."