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expection

noun

Etymology

From expect + -ion.

  1. borrowed from expectāre
  2. suffixed as expection — “expect + ion”

Definitions

  1. Alternative form of expectation.

    • Such curtesies are reall, which flow cheerefully / Without an expection of requitall.
    • A great Number of Types, Prefigurations and Prophecies […] all of them so pointing one way, as to beget in the whole Nation of the Jews, an Expection of the coming of a Messiah; […]
    • It is ridiculous […] to expect a duty to be performed for a fee established nearly four hundred years ago! The unreasonableness of such an expection justifies, in a certain degree, the discretional claims of the officer; […]

  2. Misspelling of exception.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for expection. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

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