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expectation
Part of speech: NounThe act of looking forward to; anticipation; prospect of future advancement.
Usage examples "expectation":- This is not a hastily formed opinion, nor is it in consequence of my present attachment, yet I am obliged now to express it because it appears to me that you have formed some such expectation for Eliza. - "Mary Wollstonecraft", Elizabeth Robins Pennell.
- Yet a young man hopes that he will live a long time, which expectation an old man can not entertain. - "The Best of the World's Classics, Restricted to prose. Volume II (of X) - Rome", Various.
- As the Captain was coming out of his box the girls, who had appeared to know no English, stopped their spinning and held their breath with expectation. - "The Aran Islands", John M. Synge.