Expectation

Expectation:
1. The act or state of expecting or looking forward to an event as about to happen. "In expectation of a guest." "My soul, wait thou only upon God, for my expectation is from him." (Ps. Lxii. 5)

2. That which is expected or looked for. "Why our great expectation should be called The seed of woman." (Milton)

3. The prospect of the future; grounds upon which something excellent is expected to happen; prospect of anything good to come, especially. Of c or rank. "His magnificent expiations made him, in the opinion of the world, the best much in Europe." (Prescott) "By all men's eyes a youth of expectations." (Otway)

Expectation is the case of considering what is most likely to happen. An expectation, which is a belief that is centred on the future, may or may not be realistic. A negative affect of expectation is that of disappointment in the expected not coming to pass.



The best thing about the future is that it only comes one day at a time. -Abraham Lincoln
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Uncertainty and expectation are the joys of life -William Congreve

Sources: http://quotations.about.com/cs/inspirationquotes/a/Expectation1.htm http://www.m-w.com/dictionary/expectation http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Expectation http://cancerweb.ncl.ac.uk/cgi-bin/omd?expectation

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Willem Shepherd