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unexpectation en · NOUN

Etymology

From un- + expectation.

Meanings

  1. (obsolete, uncountable) Absence of expectation; want of foresight.
    • Surely, these are no small disadvantages: as every other evil, so this especially, is aggravated by our unexpectation. 1646, Jos[eph] Hall, The Balme of Gilead: Or, Comforts for the Distressed, both Morall and Divine. […], London: […] M[iles] Flesher, for Nat[haniel] Butter, →OCLC: