expectorn.

1584 Copie of Let. conc. Erle of Leycester 107 Wher she is like by nature, to out-liue the expector.

1667 G. Digby Elvira iv. 54 'Tis the right time, just light enough, you see, For warn'd Expectors to know one another.

?1695 J. Lead Wonders of God's Creation 81 For in such in whom the Stone of Wisdom is sown, and grown up, are the Lookers, and the Expectors to see this wonderful Time.

1725 J. Swift Let. to Ld. Carteret 3 July in Misc. (1745) X. 60 These are not likely to be great Expectors [1784: expecters] under your Excellency's Administration.

1776 Scots Mag. Oct. 539/1 Let the most sanguine expectors in America then judge, how long the colonies, thus divided, can stand the fury of the combat.

1805 Cobbett's Weekly Polit. Reg. 2 Nov. 697 Out of every hundred of these indiscriminating hopers and expectors, ninety-nine hope and expect; not for their country, but for themselves.

1898 Sc. Law Rev. & Sheriff Court Rep. 14 241 He must be the holder, and not merely the expector of a title, which he may never obtain.

1909 Amer. Bee Jrnl. May 172/1 Glad you are one of the expecting kind. Expectors have a better time in advance.

1974 College Eng. 35 386/1 You can afford to look at the internalized expectations you didn't live up to—and see the original expectors as well.

2003 Oxf. Jrnl. Legal Stud. 23 642 ‘Reasonable expectation’ implies that the expector believes they have some entitlement to be treated in a certain way.