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expectancy

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

Etymology

From expectant + -cy or expect + -ancy.

  1. derived from expectans
  2. derived from expectant
  3. suffixed as expectancy — “expectant + -cy”

Definitions

  1. Expectation or anticipation

    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 […]
    • [T]his is generally thought to repreſent the Vices of Nero, vvho […] did from the higheſt Expectancy become a ſtubborn and a fooliſh Tyrant.

  2. The state of being expected.

  3. Future interest as to possession or enjoyment

  4. ›+ 2 more definitions

    1. expectation

      expectation; expected value

    2. 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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Derived

disconfirmed expectancy, life expectancy

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA