Meaning of Expectancy | Babel Free

Definitions

1. Expectation or anticipation; the state of expecting something.
   countable, uncountable
2. The state of being expected.
   countable, uncountable
3. Future interest as to possession or enjoyment
   countable, uncountable
4. expectation; expected value
   countable, uncountable
5. Something expected or awaited.
   countable, obsolete, uncountable

Equivalents

Examples

“[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.”

“Renewed hope⟳ followed renewed effort; it shone like⟳ the former for some weeks, then, like⟳ it, it faded, flickered: not a line, not a word reached me. When half a year wasted in vain expectancy, my hope⟳ died out; and then I felt dark indeed.”

“Six minutes later Clovis approached the supper-table, in the blessed expectancy of one who has dined sketchily and long ago.”

“Great Danes have⟳ relatively short life expectancies compared to smaller dogs, living for an average of 8-10 years, and males are typically about 2.5 feet (0.76 meters) tall, according to the American Kennel Club.”

“People born in 2023 are now estimated to live⟳ 78.4 years, according to the CDC. That’s still shy of the 78.8-year life expectancy from 2019, but it’s a significant improvement driven by lower death rates in each of the 10 leading causes of death.”

“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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