expectancy

noun

1. (countable, uncountable)Expectation or anticipation; the state of expecting something.

   “[T]he Dukes dissembled their feares, and dissolued their forces, and remained in expectancie what would ensue.”

   “If you foresee not this misery, and the fatall consequence which necessarily must follow such a turn of Fortune, I must leave you to your own will and expectancy […]”

   “[T]his is generally thought to repreſent the Vices of Nero, vvho […] did from the higheſt Expectancy become a ſtubborn and a fooliſh Tyrant.”

   “Renewed hope followed renewed effort; it shone like the former for some weeks, then, like it, it faded, flickered: not a line, not a word reached me. When half a year wasted in vain expectancy, my hope died out; and then I felt dark indeed.”

   “Six minutes later Clovis approached the supper-table, in the blessed expectancy of one who has dined sketchily and long ago.”

2. (countable, uncountable)The state of being expected.
3. (countable, uncountable)Future interest as to possession or enjoyment
4. (countable, uncountable)expectation; expected value
5. (countable, obsolete, uncountable)Something expected or awaited.

   “O, what a noble mind is here o’erthrown! / The courtier’s, scholar’s, soldier’s, eye, tongue, sword, / Th’ expectancy and rose of the fair state […]”

   “[…] Frederic II. King of Prussia, in consequence of an expectancy granted to the house of Brandenburg, by the Emperor Leopold in 1604, took possession of East Friezland […]”