expection
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English
Etymology
Noun
expection (countable and uncountable, plural expections)
- Archaic or rare form of expectation.
- 1633, John Ford, The Broken Heart , folios 70v–71r:
- Such curtesies are reall, which flow cheerefully / Without an expection of requitall.
- a. 1741, Edward Synge, Religion Tryed by the Test of Sober and Impartial Reason, 3rd edition, published 1761, page 58:
- A great Number of Types, Prefigurations and Prophecies […] all of them so pointing one way, as to beget in the whole Nation of the Jews, an Expection of the coming of a Messiah; […]
- 1808, Richard Phillips, A Letter to the Livery of London, Relative to the Views of the Writer in Executing the Office of Sheriff, 2nd edition, page 186:
- It is ridiculous […] to expect a duty to be performed for a fee established nearly four hundred years ago! The unreasonableness of such an expection justifies, in a certain degree, the discretional claims of the officer; […]
- Misspelling of exception.
Further reading
- “expection, n.”, in OED Online
, Oxford: Oxford University Press, launched 2000.
