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From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Expectance \Ex*pect"ance\, Expectancy \Ex*pect"an*cy\, n.
1. The act of expecting; expectation. --Milton.
2. That which is expected, or looked or waited for with
interest; the object of expectation or hope.
The expectancy and rose of the fair state. --Shak.
{Estate in expectancy} (Law), one the possession of which a
person is entitled to have at some future time, either as
a remainder or reversion, or on the death of some one
--Burrill.
From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]:
expectancy
n 1: pleasurable expectation [syn: {anticipation}]
2: something expected (as on the basis of a norm); "each of
them had their own anticipations"; "an indicator of
expectancy in development" [syn: {anticipation}]
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