The Collaborative International Dictionary
Expectance
Expectance \Ex*pect"ance\, Expectancy \Ex*pect"an*cy\, n.
The act of expecting; expectation.
--Milton.-
That which is expected, or looked or waited for with interest; the object of expectation or hope.
The expectancy and rose of the fair state.
--Shak.Estate in expectancy (Law), one the possession of which a person is entitled to have at some future time, either as a remainder or reversion, or on the death of some one.
--Burrill.
Wiktionary
expectance
n. 1 anticipation, hope. 2 (alternative spelling of expectancy English)
Usage examples of "expectance".
Habeas Corpus, the pig, grunted unhappily, eyed Ham with what seemed to be an air of expectance, then arose and trotted after Monk, waving his oversize ears at the pestering flies.