expectation

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The act or state of expecting or looking forward to an event as about to happen.
(RQ:Chambers Younger Set). ¶ Near her wandered her husband, orientally bland, invariably affable, and from time to time squinting sideways, as usual, in the ever-renewed expectation that he might catch a glimpse of his stiff, retroussé moustache.
That which is expected or looked for.
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(quote-journal)
The prospect of the future; grounds upon which something excellent is expected to occur; prospect of anything good to come, especially of property or rank.
(RQ:Austen Emma)
(RQ:Landon Lady Anne Granard)
The value of any chance (as the prospect of prize or property) which depends upon some contingent event.
The first moment; the value; the long-run average value of a variable over many independent repetitions of an experiment.
The mean.
The leaving of a disease principally to the efforts of nature to effect a cure.