Definition of Expectations

1. Noun. (plural of expectation) ¹

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Definition of Expectations

1. expectation [n] - See also: expectation

Lexicographical Neighbors of Expectations

expect
expect the unexpected
expectable
expectably
expectance
expectances
expectancies
expectancy
expectant
expectantly
expectants
expectation
expectation neurosis
expectation of life
expectational
expectations
expectative
expectative grace
expected
expected date of confinement
expected value
expectedly
expectedness
expectednesses
expecter
expecters
expectest
expecteth
expecting
expectingly

Literary usage of Expectations

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Complete Works of Gustave Flaubert: Embracing Romances, Travels by Gustave Flaubert, Ferdinand Brunetière (1904)
"Hatred masked itself; expectations were openly indulged in; the multitude seemed full of good-nature. The pride of having gained their rights shone in the ..."

2. The Cambridge Modern History by Adolphus William Ward, George Walter Prothero (1907)
"Such expectations and visions as these the Congress was not destined to fulfil within the nine months—strictly speaking, they were barely more than eight—of ..."

3. Ueber die Wärme-entwickelung in den Pflanzen: Or, A View of Its Past and by Johann Heinrich Robert Göppert, Thomas Robert Malthus (1817)
"Of our rational Expectations respecting the future Improvement of Society. IN taking a general and concluding view of our rational expectations respecting ..."

4. Daniel Deronda by George Eliot (1876)
"... imposed a certain awe on Deronda, and an embarrassment at not meeting his expectations. No sooner had Mordecai finished his devotional strain than, ..."

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