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单词 expecting
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expectingn.

Brit. /ᵻkˈspɛktɪŋ/, /ɛkˈspɛktɪŋ/, U.S. /ᵻkˈspɛktɪŋ/, /ɛkˈspɛktɪŋ/
Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: expect v., -ing suffix1.
Etymology: < expect v. + -ing suffix1. Compare earlier expectation n.
The action of expect v.; an instance of this.
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
1568 N. Sanders Briefe Treat. Vsurie iii. f. 12 There is great oddes betwene open bargaining for vsurie, and priuie expecting of some reward.
1606 W. Drummond Let. 18 July in Wks. (1711) 232 After many many Reports and long expecting, the King of Denmark is come hither.
a1617 S. Hieron Penance for Sinne in Wks. (1620) II. 296 Sometimes, some vnseasonablenesse of the yeere frustrates his expecting.
1721 J. Perry Glory Christ's Visible Kingdom xii. 158 Our Lord would have..reproved them for their expecting of and looking for that which he had never promised.
1823 S. T. Coleridge Coll. Lett. (1971) V. 318 A strange and fearful Expecting.
1895 Amer. Jrnl. Philol. 16 176 The action of awaiting, expecting or abiding was conceived as extended in time.
1960 Philos. Rev. 69 478 Willing is..an activity..different from the wonderings, thinkings, supposings, expectings, picturings, and so forth, that comprise our mental activities.
2011 N. Eliasoph Making Volunteers xii. 212 Nobody mentioned why these (non-white) children were considered ‘at-risk’, or who was doing the expecting.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2015; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

expectingadj.

Brit. /ᵻkˈspɛktɪŋ/, /ɛkˈspɛktɪŋ/, U.S. /ᵻkˈspɛktɪŋ/, /ɛkˈspɛktɪŋ/
Forms: see expect v. and -ing suffix2.
Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: expect v., -ing suffix2.
Etymology: < expect v. + -ing suffix2. Compare earlier expectant adj.
1. That awaits or looks forward to something; expectant.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > mental capacity > expectation > expectation, waiting > [adjective]
expecting1605
expectative1611
waiting1654
in wait1873
1605 B. Jonson Sejanus v. sig. K2 Our bed, that brake This morning, burden'd with the populous weight Of our expecting Clients to salute vs. View more context for this quotation
1629 F. Quarles Argalus & Parthenia iii. 108 The expecting crowd Haue throng'd the streets.
1726 W. R. Chetwood Voy. & Adventures Capt. R. Boyle 80 The Captain came in with an expecting Face.
1741 J. Swift Some Free Thoughts upon Present State Affairs 28 in Lett. That Impatience which the Frailty of human Nature gives to expecting Heirs.
a1817 J. Austen Watsons in Wks. (1954) VI. 330 Her little expecting Partner.
1842 G. S. Faber Provinc. Lett. (1844) II. 95 To reside and labour in his own expecting Greek Diocese.
1919 Illinois Law Bull. May 218 This is true even where the expecting beneficiaries voluntarily contribute to the fund.
2004 M. Bamberger Wonderland iv. 66 It was that time in a pregnancy when all conversations, against the expecting mother's wishes, quickly head to the due date.
2. Expected. Obsolete. rare. N.E.D. (1894) marks this sense as erroneous.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > mental capacity > expectation > [adjective] > expected
futurec1374
in a possibility1523
forestalled1543
looked-for1548
anticipatec1550
expected1558
long-looked-for1562
looked1565
in expectation1570
expectable1619
expecting1621
in perspective1633
unsurprising1671
in prospect1694
perspective1710
in prospective1746–7
prospective1809
anticipated1814
presumable1825
anticipatable1872
ex ante1937
1621 M. Wroth Countesse of Mountgomeries Urania 496 The Campe they gained, the night before the expecting time of Combat.

Derivatives

exˈpectingly adv. now rare. in an expectant manner or attitude; expectantly.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > mental capacity > expectation > [adverb]
expectedly1632
expectingly1677
expectantly1771
anticipatingly1851
waitingly1882
1677 F. Bampfield Seventh-day-sabbath 61 I expectingly believe, and hopingly wait for a coming day.
1833 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. 33 112/1 The waiter was standing expectingly at the corner of the sideboard.
1922 E. E. Cummings Enormous Room ix. 198 He had forgotten completely his gun, which lay faithfully and expectingly in his two noble hands.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2015; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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