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Definition of Expectations
1. expectation [n] - See also: expectation
Lexicographical Neighbors of Expectations
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, ..."