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Expectation

noun

Belief about (or mental picture of) the future. Synonyms: outlook, prospect.

Anticipating with confidence of fulfillment. Synonym: anticipation.

The feeling that something is about to happen.

The sum of the values of a random variable divided by the number of values. Synonyms: arithmetic mean, expected value, first moment.

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"Expectation" Quotes from Famous Books

... interest in the development of an action? Take the Tournament, for example, and show how he arouses our expectation before ...

— Teachers' Outlines for Studies in English - Based on the Requirements for Admission to College • Gilbert Sykes Blakely

... you jam your head. The only other method is to jump up and down outside the window. After this latter proceeding, however, if you do not bring out a banjo and commence to sing, the youthful inhabitants of the neighborhood, who have gathered round in expectation, ...

— Idle Thoughts of an Idle Fellow • Jerome K. Jerome

... "In expectation of an attack, Silvio Francisco Cartabona, a governmental officer, had gone to St. Genevieve for a company of militia to aid in defending the town, in case of necessity, and had at the beginning of the month ...

— Great Indian Chief of the West - Or, Life and Adventures of Black Hawk • Benjamin Drake

... rising vanity becomes insupportable: but I pity the man, who writes a book which none will peruse a second time; critical exertions are not necessary to pull him down, he will fall of himself. The sin of writing carries its own punishment, the tumultuous passions of anxiety and expectation, like the jarring elements in October, disturb his repose, and, like them, are followed by stirility: his cold productions, injured by no hand but that of time, are found sleeping on the shelf unmolested. ...

— An History of Birmingham (1783) • William Hutton

... have no money," remonstrated Yorke, though his fine face lit up for a moment with delight (for he was a gambler to the core), "nor any expectation of—" ...

— Bred in the Bone • James Payn

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