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noun
Expectation or anticipation; the state of expecting something.
[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 […]
The state of being expected.
Future interest as to possession or enjoyment
expectation; expected value
Something expected or awaited.
O, what a noble mind is here o’erthrown! / The courtier’s, scholar’s, soldier’s, eye, tongue, sword, / Th’ expectancy and rose of the fair state […]
[…] Frederic II. King of Prussia, in consequence of an expectancy granted to the house of Brandenburg, by the Emperor Leopold in 1604, took possession of East Friezland […]