expectancyn.

Brit.

/ᵻkˈspɛkt(ə)nsi/,

/ɛkˈspɛkt(ə)nsi/, U.S.

/ɪkˈspɛktənsi/,

/ɛkˈspɛktənsi/

Forms: 1500s–1600s expectancie, 1600s expectansie, 1600s– expectancy.

Origin: A borrowing from Latin. Etymon: Latin expectantia.

Etymology: < post-classical Latin expectantia (see expectance n.); compare -ancy suffix. Compare expectance n., and also earlier expectant adj.

†1. The action or state of waiting for a person or thing. Cf. expectance n. 1. Obsolete.Recorded earliest in in expectancy: see Phrases 2a.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > mental capacity > expectation > expectation, waiting > [noun]

biding1340

expectation1524

await1538

tarriance1561

tendance1591

expectance1592

expectancy1592

attendance1597

awaiting1607

attendancy1646

waiting1743

sitting out1838

1592 W. Wyrley True Vse Armorie 15 Being the heire male of his familie and..one that remained in expectancie.

a1626 L. Andrewes Institutiones Piæ (1630) 172 Many there are..that so largely promise to themselues Gods expectancy and patience..that they neither finde time to conuert, nor the Benefit of Remission.

1654 R. Flecknoe Love's Dominion v. iii. 69 At last, wearied out with long expectancy,..I took resolution to abjure the Isle, And depart in search of you.

1697 V. Alsop Vindic. Faithful Rebuke 28 After some considerable Time of Expectancy,..the Body of the United Ministers judg'd themselves concerned to take the Matter into Consideration.

a. The quality, state, or feeling of being expectant; the action or fact of expecting. Also: an instance of this; an expectation.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > mental capacity > expectation > [noun]

to-hopec888

weenOE

hopea1225

thoughta1350

opiniona1425

attentc1430

looking1440

presume?a1500

beliefa1522

expectation1527

expection1532

looking for1532

looking after?1537

expecting1568

imagination1582

expectance1593

suppose1596

expect1597

expectancy1609

apprehensiona1616

contemplationa1631

prospect1665

supposition1719

speculationa1797

augury1871

preperception1871

1609 S. Daniel Civile Wares (rev. ed.) viii. xxxvii. 213 Those expectancies came frustrated, Which they had set vpon th' imagin'd score.

1656 H. Jeanes Mixture Scholasticall Divinity 131 It gives therefore an assured expectancy of a better life after death.

1676 J. Sharp Serm. preached at Bow-church 13 How often doth a man do that in the fury and expectancies of a Lust, for which when his Ardors are over, he is ready to bite his nails for very vexation?

1807 T. Cogan Ethical Treat. Passions i. i. 38 According to the degrees of our expectancy of success.

1823 W. Scott Peveril III. ii. 26 Fortune..loves to confound the calculations and expectancies of humanity.

1911 National Poultry Mag. Oct. 11/1 You must be fair in your expectancies and not imagine that $500 invested..will pay you a thousand per cent. annually upon the investment.

1936 Farmers' Bull. (U.S. Dept. Agric.) (rev. ed.) No. 1405. 9 In some cases the expectancy of better crop yields is fully realized thereby.

2000 G. Marinovich & J. Silva Bang-bang Club (2001) xiv. 199 There was an air of expectancy: it was clear that Thokoza was gearing up for a major battle.

b. Potential entitlement to a possession or privilege at a future time, esp. (Law) as a remainder, reversion, or on the death of another person. Cf. in expectancy at Phrases 2.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > mental capacity > expectation > hope > promise, ground of hope > [noun]

i-wonc1275

wonec1290

likelinessa1450

hopec1480

likelihood1526

promise?1533

show1600

expectance1602

expectation1611

auspiciousness1649

hopefulness1651

promisingness1665

expectancy1696

brilliancy1781

1696 W. Atwood Refl. Treasonable Opinion 27 That John should be disseiz'd of all that he held in England, which might extend to such right or expectancy as he had in the Crown.

1761 Petition Creditors of A. Cockburn 6 That a present right was vested, resolveable sub conditione, and not an expectancy only of a right.

1815 J. Mackintosh in Edinb. Rev. 24 525 The number of persons..interested, directly or indirectly, in the sale of confiscated property..by mortgage, or by expectancy, has been computed to be ten millions.

1927 Calif. Law Rev. 15 306 The expectancy of a wife is more like that of a remainderman, an expectancy only as to physical possession.

2010 L. A. Shaner Divorce in Golden Years i. 13 Clients only have an expectancy interest in life insurance proceeds.

†3. Ground or reason for expecting something; likelihood of receiving or achieving something. Also (in singular and plural): prospects of inheriting wealth or property. Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > mental capacity > belief > uncertainty, doubt, hesitation > probability, likelihood > [noun] > degree of

expectancy1614

expectation1718

1614 R. Brathwait Poets Willow Argt. sig. B Being of great expectancie, as the onely daughter to her father.

1620 Horæ Subseciuæ 454 From meane fortunes expectancies cannot be great.

1758 A. Murphy Upholsterer i. 7 Have not I told you tho' her Father is ruin'd, still she has great Expectancies from a rich Relation?

1792 E. Burke Heads for Consideration in Three Memorials on French Affairs (1797) 145 I..have been taught..to moderate my calculation of the expectancy of human abilities.

1879 ‘G. Eliot’ Theophrastus Such xv. 262 Calculating expectancy concerning parishoners' turkeys.

†4. A person who or thing which is a focus for expectation. Obsolete. rare.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > mental capacity > expectation > hope > [noun] > object of hope

hopea1382

expectancya1616

expectance1663

spes1815

white hope1911

a1616 W. Shakespeare Hamlet (1623) iii. i. 155 Th' expectansie [1604 expectation] and Rose of the faire State.

a1807 W. Wordsworth Prelude (1959) vi. 218 The Nations hail'd Their great expectancy.

5. Property or wealth to which a person may have future entitlement. Also: a position (in the church or state) to which a person has right of succession (cf. expectation n. 4a).

ΘΚΠ

society > morality > dueness or propriety > [noun] > right or moral entitlement > one's due

rightOE

dutyc1386

duec1450

expectativec1540

expectancy1624

expectance1652

1624 Briefe Information Affaires Palatinate 55 The Emperour..promised the expectancy of the Electorate vnto the Duke Wolfgang.

1767 W. Blackstone Comm. Laws Eng. (new ed.) II. 163 Of expectancies there are two sorts; one..called a remainder; the other..called a reversion.

1858 Ld. St. Leonards Handy Bk. Prop. Law xx. 152 You may devise and bequeath any of your expectancies.

1883 Stubbs' Mercantile Circ. 8 Nov. 1000/2 Taking an assignment of her expectancy for what it is worth.

1901 F. W. Rolfe Chron. House Borgia 44 Annates rigorously are exacted, grants of expectancies habitually are given, and his Holiness is not content with His due.

1994 R. W. Andersen Understanding Trusts & Estates vi. 139 Releases and assignments of expectancies are made before the death of the person supplying the funds.

Phrases

P1. expectancy of life: = life expectancy n. at life n. Compounds 3.

ΚΠ

1752 Gentleman & Lady's Palladium 35 One Error herein..will influence the Expectancy of Life at several other Ages.

1813 J. M. Good et al. Pantologia at Life Annuities The measure of the value or expectancy of life, depends on the proportion of the number of persons that die, out of a given number, in the time proposed.

1897 Atlantic Reporter 35 755/1 The case does not show the age of the father, and therefore there was nothing to indicate his probable expectancy of life.

1909 Cent. Dict. Suppl. at Risk Superstandard risk, insurance on the life of one whose habits or heredity or the state of whose health increases his expectancy of life.

2001 T. McMichael Human Frontiers, Environments & Dis. (2003) vii. 193 This figure refers not to the average age of adult death, but to the average expectancy of life at birth.

P2. in expectancy.

a. In a state or condition of expecting or being expected.

ΚΠ

1592In expectancie [see sense 1].

1610 R. Vaughan Most Approved Water-workes sig. I4^v The Table [is] perpetually furnished to intertaine forty of those Contributers dayly in expectancy.

1716 J. Digby tr. A. de Wicquefort Embassador & his Functions i. xxv. 222/1 The King of the Romans was only a Titular King, and Emperor in Expectancy.

1777 E. Burke Let. 5 Nov. in Corr. (1961) III. 400 A practical reputation, to do any good, must be in possession, not in expectancy.

1811 L.-M. Hawkins Countess & Gertrude I. iii. 37 Miss Toms, the great heiress in expectancy.

1867 R. Broughton Cometh up as Flower I. xi. 155 Happy, partly in present fruition, far more in expectancy.

1996 J. E. Dittes Driven by Hope ix. 138 To live as a son is to live not in sure capture of sure goal but in expectancy.

b. Law. Of property: expected to be inherited, esp. as remainder or reversion.

ΚΠ

1650 Act 13 Aug. 986 Any Estate of Freehold or Inheritance..; or other Estate either in Possession, Reversion, Remainder, Expectancy or future Interest.

1767 W. Blackstone Comm. Laws Eng. (new ed.) II. xxxi. 482 The bankrupt..is bound..to make a full discovery of all his estate and effects, as well in expectancy as possession.

1839 C. Dickens Nicholas Nickleby xxii. 203 The whole capital which Nicholas found himself entitled to, either in possession, reversion, remainder, or expectancy.

1920 Harvard Law Rev. 33 528 An abstract direction inserted in a will that a remainder shall not, while it is still an interest in expectancy, pass to strangers, would of course be futile.

1997 Eng. Hist. Rev. 112 1115 Clinton was to hold these other properties in expectancy, pending the deaths of..the life holders of the lands involved.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2015; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	expectancy
释义	expectancyn. Brit. /ᵻkˈspɛkt(ə)nsi/, /ɛkˈspɛkt(ə)nsi/, U.S. /ɪkˈspɛktənsi/, /ɛkˈspɛktənsi/ Forms: 1500s–1600s expectancie, 1600s expectansie, 1600s– expectancy. Origin: A borrowing from Latin. Etymon: Latin expectantia. Etymology: < post-classical Latin expectantia (see expectance n.); compare -ancy suffix. Compare expectance n., and also earlier expectant adj. †1. The action or state of waiting for a person or thing. Cf. expectance n. 1. Obsolete.Recorded earliest in in expectancy: see Phrases 2a. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > expectation > expectation, waiting > [noun] biding1340 expectation1524 await1538 tarriance1561 tendance1591 expectance1592 expectancy1592 attendance1597 awaiting1607 attendancy1646 waiting1743 sitting out1838 1592 W. Wyrley True Vse Armorie 15 Being the heire male of his familie and..one that remained in expectancie. a1626 L. Andrewes Institutiones Piæ (1630) 172 Many there are..that so largely promise to themselues Gods expectancy and patience..that they neither finde time to conuert, nor the Benefit of Remission. 1654 R. Flecknoe Love's Dominion v. iii. 69 At last, wearied out with long expectancy,..I took resolution to abjure the Isle, And depart in search of you. 1697 V. Alsop Vindic. Faithful Rebuke 28 After some considerable Time of Expectancy,..the Body of the United Ministers judg'd themselves concerned to take the Matter into Consideration. 2. a. The quality, state, or feeling of being expectant; the action or fact of expecting. Also: an instance of this; an expectation. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > expectation > [noun] to-hopec888 weenOE hopea1225 thoughta1350 opiniona1425 attentc1430 looking1440 presume?a1500 beliefa1522 expectation1527 expection1532 looking for1532 looking after?1537 expecting1568 imagination1582 expectance1593 suppose1596 expect1597 expectancy1609 apprehensiona1616 contemplationa1631 prospect1665 supposition1719 speculationa1797 augury1871 preperception1871 1609 S. Daniel Civile Wares (rev. ed.) viii. xxxvii. 213 Those expectancies came frustrated, Which they had set vpon th' imagin'd score. 1656 H. Jeanes Mixture Scholasticall Divinity 131 It gives therefore an assured expectancy of a better life after death. 1676 J. Sharp Serm. preached at Bow-church 13 How often doth a man do that in the fury and expectancies of a Lust, for which when his Ardors are over, he is ready to bite his nails for very vexation? 1807 T. Cogan Ethical Treat. Passions i. i. 38 According to the degrees of our expectancy of success. 1823 W. Scott Peveril III. ii. 26 Fortune..loves to confound the calculations and expectancies of humanity. 1911 National Poultry Mag. Oct. 11/1 You must be fair in your expectancies and not imagine that $500 invested..will pay you a thousand per cent. annually upon the investment. 1936 Farmers' Bull. (U.S. Dept. Agric.) (rev. ed.) No. 1405. 9 In some cases the expectancy of better crop yields is fully realized thereby. 2000 G. Marinovich & J. Silva Bang-bang Club (2001) xiv. 199 There was an air of expectancy: it was clear that Thokoza was gearing up for a major battle. b. Potential entitlement to a possession or privilege at a future time, esp. (Law) as a remainder, reversion, or on the death of another person. Cf. in expectancy at Phrases 2. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > expectation > hope > promise, ground of hope > [noun] i-wonc1275 wonec1290 likelinessa1450 hopec1480 likelihood1526 promise?1533 show1600 expectance1602 expectation1611 auspiciousness1649 hopefulness1651 promisingness1665 expectancy1696 brilliancy1781 1696 W. Atwood Refl. Treasonable Opinion 27 That John should be disseiz'd of all that he held in England, which might extend to such right or expectancy as he had in the Crown. 1761 Petition Creditors of A. Cockburn 6 That a present right was vested, resolveable sub conditione, and not an expectancy only of a right. 1815 J. Mackintosh in Edinb. Rev. 24 525 The number of persons..interested, directly or indirectly, in the sale of confiscated property..by mortgage, or by expectancy, has been computed to be ten millions. 1927 Calif. Law Rev. 15 306 The expectancy of a wife is more like that of a remainderman, an expectancy only as to physical possession. 2010 L. A. Shaner Divorce in Golden Years i. 13 Clients only have an expectancy interest in life insurance proceeds. †3. Ground or reason for expecting something; likelihood of receiving or achieving something. Also (in singular and plural): prospects of inheriting wealth or property. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > belief > uncertainty, doubt, hesitation > probability, likelihood > [noun] > degree of expectancy1614 expectation1718 1614 R. Brathwait Poets Willow Argt. sig. B Being of great expectancie, as the onely daughter to her father. 1620 Horæ Subseciuæ 454 From meane fortunes expectancies cannot be great. 1758 A. Murphy Upholsterer i. 7 Have not I told you tho' her Father is ruin'd, still she has great Expectancies from a rich Relation? 1792 E. Burke Heads for Consideration in Three Memorials on French Affairs (1797) 145 I..have been taught..to moderate my calculation of the expectancy of human abilities. 1879 ‘G. Eliot’ Theophrastus Such xv. 262 Calculating expectancy concerning parishoners' turkeys. †4. A person who or thing which is a focus for expectation. Obsolete. rare. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > expectation > hope > [noun] > object of hope hopea1382 expectancya1616 expectance1663 spes1815 white hope1911 a1616 W. Shakespeare Hamlet (1623) iii. i. 155 Th' expectansie [1604 expectation] and Rose of the faire State. a1807 W. Wordsworth Prelude (1959) vi. 218 The Nations hail'd Their great expectancy. 5. Property or wealth to which a person may have future entitlement. Also: a position (in the church or state) to which a person has right of succession (cf. expectation n. 4a). ΘΚΠ society > morality > dueness or propriety > [noun] > right or moral entitlement > one's due rightOE dutyc1386 duec1450 expectativec1540 expectancy1624 expectance1652 1624 Briefe Information Affaires Palatinate 55 The Emperour..promised the expectancy of the Electorate vnto the Duke Wolfgang. 1767 W. Blackstone Comm. Laws Eng. (new ed.) II. 163 Of expectancies there are two sorts; one..called a remainder; the other..called a reversion. 1858 Ld. St. Leonards Handy Bk. Prop. Law xx. 152 You may devise and bequeath any of your expectancies. 1883 Stubbs' Mercantile Circ. 8 Nov. 1000/2 Taking an assignment of her expectancy for what it is worth. 1901 F. W. Rolfe Chron. House Borgia 44 Annates rigorously are exacted, grants of expectancies habitually are given, and his Holiness is not content with His due. 1994 R. W. Andersen Understanding Trusts & Estates vi. 139 Releases and assignments of expectancies are made before the death of the person supplying the funds. Phrases P1. expectancy of life: = life expectancy n. at life n. Compounds 3. ΚΠ 1752 Gentleman & Lady's Palladium 35 One Error herein..will influence the Expectancy of Life at several other Ages. 1813 J. M. Good et al. Pantologia at Life Annuities The measure of the value or expectancy of life, depends on the proportion of the number of persons that die, out of a given number, in the time proposed. 1897 Atlantic Reporter 35 755/1 The case does not show the age of the father, and therefore there was nothing to indicate his probable expectancy of life. 1909 Cent. Dict. Suppl. at Risk Superstandard risk, insurance on the life of one whose habits or heredity or the state of whose health increases his expectancy of life. 2001 T. McMichael Human Frontiers, Environments & Dis. (2003) vii. 193 This figure refers not to the average age of adult death, but to the average expectancy of life at birth. P2. in expectancy. a. In a state or condition of expecting or being expected. ΚΠ 1592In expectancie [see sense 1]. 1610 R. Vaughan Most Approved Water-workes sig. I4^v The Table [is] perpetually furnished to intertaine forty of those Contributers dayly in expectancy. 1716 J. Digby tr. A. de Wicquefort Embassador & his Functions i. xxv. 222/1 The King of the Romans was only a Titular King, and Emperor in Expectancy. 1777 E. Burke Let. 5 Nov. in Corr. (1961) III. 400 A practical reputation, to do any good, must be in possession, not in expectancy. 1811 L.-M. Hawkins Countess & Gertrude I. iii. 37 Miss Toms, the great heiress in expectancy. 1867 R. Broughton Cometh up as Flower I. xi. 155 Happy, partly in present fruition, far more in expectancy. 1996 J. E. Dittes Driven by Hope ix. 138 To live as a son is to live not in sure capture of sure goal but in expectancy. b. Law. Of property: expected to be inherited, esp. as remainder or reversion. ΚΠ 1650 Act 13 Aug. 986 Any Estate of Freehold or Inheritance..; or other Estate either in Possession, Reversion, Remainder, Expectancy or future Interest. 1767 W. Blackstone Comm. Laws Eng. (new ed.) II. xxxi. 482 The bankrupt..is bound..to make a full discovery of all his estate and effects, as well in expectancy as possession. 1839 C. Dickens Nicholas Nickleby xxii. 203 The whole capital which Nicholas found himself entitled to, either in possession, reversion, remainder, or expectancy. 1920 Harvard Law Rev. 33 528 An abstract direction inserted in a will that a remainder shall not, while it is still an interest in expectancy, pass to strangers, would of course be futile. 1997 Eng. Hist. Rev. 112 1115 Clinton was to hold these other properties in expectancy, pending the deaths of..the life holders of the lands involved. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2015; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1592
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