expection

English

Etymology

expect +‎ -ion

Noun

expection (countable and uncountable, plural expections)

1. Archaic or rare form of expectation.
   • 1633, John Ford, The Broken Heart […], folios 70^v–71^r:

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

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

     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; […]

   • 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:

     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; […]

2. Misspelling of exception.

Further reading

• “expection, n.”, in OED Online ⁠, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, launched 2000.