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expectancy
English
Etymology
expectant +? -cy or expect +? -ancy
Noun
expectancy (countable and uncountable, plural expectancies)
- Expectation or anticipation; the state of expecting something.
- 1599, John Hayward, The First Part of the Life and Raigne of King Henrie IIII. Extending to the end of the first yeare of his raigne, London: John Woolfe, p. 39,[1]
- […] the Dukes dissembled their feares, and dissolued their forces, and remained in expectancie what would ensue.
- 1651, John Milton, The Life and Reigne of King Charls, London: W. Reybold, p. 110,[2]
- 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 […]
- 1735, Alexander Pope, Mr. Pope’s Literary Correspondence, London: E. Curll, Volume 2, “The Feast of Trimalchio, Imitaded,” pp. 42-43,[3]
- […] this is generally thought to represent the Vices of Nero, who […] did from the highest Expectancy become a stubborn and a foolish Tyrant.
- 1847, Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre, Chapter 34,[4]
- Renewed hope followed renewed effort: it shone like the former for some weeks, then, like it, it faded, flickered: not a line, not a word reached me. When half a year wasted in vain expectancy, my hope died out, and then I felt dark indeed.
- 1912, Saki, “The Match-Maker” in The Chronicles of Clovis, London: John Lane, p. 23,[5]
- Six minutes later Clovis approached the supper-table, in the blessed expectancy of one who has dined sketchily and long ago.
- 1599, John Hayward, The First Part of the Life and Raigne of King Henrie IIII. Extending to the end of the first yeare of his raigne, London: John Woolfe, p. 39,[1]
- The state of being expected. (The addition of quotations indicative of this usage is being sought:)
- (obsolete) Something expected or awaited.
- c. 1600, William Shakespeare, Hamlet, Act III, Scene 1,[6]
- 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 […]
- 1791, John Trusler, The Habitable World Described, London, for the author, Volume 10, Chapter 9, p. 157,[7]
- […] 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 […]
- c. 1600, William Shakespeare, Hamlet, Act III, Scene 1,[6]
Synonyms
- expectingness (rare)
Derived terms
- life expectancy
Translations
expectancy From the web:
- what expectancy theory
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belief
English
Etymology
From Middle English bileve, from Old English l?afa, from Proto-Germanic *laubô. Compare German Glaube (“faith, belief”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /b??li?f/, /b??li?f/
- Rhymes: -i?f
- Hyphenation: be?lief
Noun
belief (countable and uncountable, plural beliefs)
- Mental acceptance of a claim as true.
- Faith or trust in the reality of something; often based upon one's own reasoning, trust in a claim, desire of actuality, and/or evidence considered.
- (countable) Something believed.
- (uncountable) The quality or state of believing.
- (uncountable) Religious faith.
- (in the plural) One's religious or moral convictions.
Derived terms
- beliefful
- beyond belief
- disbelief
- forebelief
- self-belief
- unbelief
- wanbelief
Related terms
- believe
Translations
Anagrams
- befile, belfie
Dutch
Pronunciation
Verb
belief
- imperative of believen
German
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [b??li?f]
- Hyphenation: be?lief
Verb
belief
- first-person singular preterite of belaufen
- third-person singular preterite of belaufen
belief From the web:
- what beliefs are shared by most christians
- what belief was behind manifest destiny
- what belief contributed to the boxer rebellion
- what belief united the progressive movement
- what beliefs characterized manifest destiny
- what belief is at the heart of confucianism
- what belief was held by most progressives
- what beliefs was central to egyptian religion
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