expectative
/ik-spek-tuh-tiv/US // ɪkˈspɛk tə tɪv //
期待的,预期的,预期性,期待
Definitions
adj.形容词 adjective
- 1
- : of or relating to expectation.
- : characterized by expectation.
Examples
They went to Stuttgart, where the Wrtemberg Government kept up a sort of expectative neutrality.
He is young enough to forgive, and to be forgiven, the possession and the expectative, at least for some years.
Even expectative graces, or mandates nominating a person to succeed to a benefice upon the first vacancy, were thus sold.
It was too slow for their eagerness and expectative grants were sought for and made in advance so as to profit by the next victim.
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