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▪ I. expecting, vbl. n.|ɛkˈspɛktɪŋ|
[f. expect v. + -ing1.]
The action of the vb. expect; expectation. Now only gerundial.
1606Drummond of Hawthornden Let. Wks. 232 After many reports and long expecting, the king of Denmark is coming hither. 1617Hieron Wks. II. 296 Sometimes, some vnseasonablenesse of the yeere frustrates his expecting.
▪ II. exˈpecting, ppl. a.
[f. as prec. + -ing2.]
1. That expects; expectant.
1714Swift Pres. St. Affairs Wks. 1755 II. i. 219 That impatience which the frailty of human nature gives to expecting heirs. 1726Chetwood Adv. Capt. R. Boyle 80 The Captain came in with an expecting Face. 1804Jane Austen Watsons (1879) 319 Her little expecting partner. 1842G. S. Faber Provinc. Lett. (1844) II. 95 To reside and labour in his own expecting Greek Diocese.
¶2. catachr. = expected. Obs. rare—1.
1621Lady M. Wroth Urania 496 The Campe they gained the night before the expecting time of Combat.
Hence exˈpectingly adv., in an expecting manner or attitude; expectantly.
1693Dryden Juvenal vi, Prepar'd for fight, expectingly she lies. 1833Blackw. Mag. XXXIII. 112 The waiter was standing expectingly. 1838New Monthly Mag. LII. 195 Firmly, yet expectingly, sat the last woman. 1871Lit. World 6 Jan. 1 We thought well enough of Napoleon III. to listen expectingly for some word [etc.]. |