Expectance [noun]
Definition of Expectance:
anticipation
Opposite/Antonyms of Expectance:
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Sentence/Example of Expectance:
If we exercise expectance, and desire and petition and faithful stewardship, we shall get what we need.
They're upon the last sound; but our expectance of that great Count, whose desires are winged for us, foreflow our entry.
Such expectance, however patient, is not inconsistent with loud crying, but rather finds voice in it.
The silence of patient expectance is changed for the melody of received deliverance.
His voice rose to God ere the dim morning broke, and his heart kept itself in submissive expectance.
"No, I didn't," said Annie, obliged by this expectance to say something.
But whether the concourse be all Israel or all nations, they are gathered in silent expectance as in a great judgment-hall.
His eye meets with love the upturned patient eye of humble expectance and loving fear.
That patience is no mere passive endurance without murmuring, but implies tension of expectance.
The word which he employs, by its very form, expresses that that expectance is habitual and continuous.