different between expectancy vs hope

English

Etymology

expectant +? -cy or expect +? -ancy

Noun

expectancy (countable and uncountable, plural expectancies)

1. 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.

2. The state of being expected. (The addition of quotations indicative of this usage is being sought:)
3. (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 […]

Synonyms

• expectingness (rare)

Derived terms

• life expectancy

Translations

English

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) enPR: h?p, IPA^(key): /h??p/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /ho?p/
• Rhymes: -??p

Etymology 1

From Middle English hopen, from Old English hopian (“to expect, hope”), from Proto-West Germanic *hop?n, further etymology unclear.

Verb

hope (third-person singular simple present hopes, present participle hoping, simple past and past participle hoped)

1. (intransitive, transitive) To want something to happen, with a sense of expectation that it might.
2. To be optimistic; be full of hope; have hopes.
3. (intransitive) To place confidence; to trust with confident expectation of good; usually followed by in.
   • 1611, Bible (King James Version), Psalms cxix. 81

     I hope in thy word.

   • 1611, Bible (King James Version), Psalms xlii. 11

     Why art thou cast down, O my soul? and why art thou disquieted within me? Hope thou in God.

4. (transitive, dialectal, nonstandard) To wish.

Usage notes

• This is a catenative verb that takes the to infinitive. See Appendix:English catenative verbs

Derived terms

• here's hoping
• hoped for

Translations

See also

• aspire
• desire
• expect
• look forward
• want

Etymology 2

From Middle English hope, from Old English hopa (“hope, expectation”), from the verb hope.

Noun

hope (countable and uncountable, plural hopes)

1. (countable or uncountable) The feeling of trust, confidence, belief or expectation that something wished for can or will happen.

2. (countable) The actual thing wished for.
3. (countable) A person or thing that is a source of hope.

4. (Christianity, uncountable) The virtuous desire for future good.

   • But now abideth faith, hope, love, these three; and the greatest of these is love.

Derived terms

Related terms

• forlorn hope

Translations

Etymology 3

From Middle English hope (“a valley”), from Old English h?p (found only in placenames). More at hoop.

Noun

hope (plural hopes)

1. (Northern England, Scotland) A hollow; a valley, especially the upper end of a narrow mountain valley when it is nearly encircled by smooth, green slopes; a comb.

Etymology 4

From Icelandic hóp (“a small bay or inlet”). Cognate with English hoop.

Noun

hope (plural hopes)

1. A sloping plain between mountain ridges.
2. (Scotland) A small bay; an inlet; a haven.

   (Can we find and add a quotation of Jamieson to this entry?)

Anagrams

• pheo, pheo-

Dutch

Pronunciation

Verb

hope

1. (archaic) singular present subjunctive of hopen

Maori

Noun

hope

1. waist
2. hip (ringa hope)

Shona

Etymology

From the root of Common Bantu *d??kópè, whence also chikope (“eyelid”).

Noun

hópé 10

1. sleep

West Frisian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?ho?p?/

Noun

hope n (no plural)

1. Alternative form of hoop