expection

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A form of expectation — The act or state of expecting or looking forward to an event as about to happen.

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Meanings

nounexpection (countable and uncountable, plural expections)

plural expections

  1. alternativearchaiccountablerareuncountableAlternative form of expectation.

    Such curtesies are reall, which flow cheerefully / Without an expection of requitall.

    1633, John Ford, The Broken Heart […], folios 70ᵛ–71ʳ
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    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; […]

    a. 1741, Edward Synge, Religion Tryed by the Test of Sober and Impartial Reason, 3rd edition, published 1761, page 58

    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; […]

    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
  2. countablemisspellinguncountableMisspelling of exception.

Origin

From expect + -ion.

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Rhymes & wordplay

Anagrams

exception
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APA

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MLA

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Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “expection,” accessed November 2, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/expection.

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