expectancy

UK /ɪkˈspɛkt(ə)nsi/ US /ɪkˈspɛktənsi/
noun 5

Definitions

noun

1

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 […]

2

The state of being expected.

3

Future interest as to possession or enjoyment

4

expectation; expected value

5

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 […]

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