anticipation
/ænˌtɪs.əˈpeɪ.ʃən/ noun B2- The act of anticipating, taking up, placing, or considering something beforehand, or before the proper time in natural order. · Often the anticipation of a shot is worse than the pain of the stick.
- The eagerness associated with waiting for something to occur. · I was giddy with anticipation.
- Prepayment of a debt, generally in order to pay less interest.
- Prolepsis.
- A non-harmonic tone that is lower or higher than a note in the previous chord and a unison to a note in the next chord.
Plural anticipations
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“Yet,” continued the count, becoming each moment more absorbed in the anticipation of the dreadful sacrifice for the morrow, which Mercédès had accepted, “yet, it is impossible that so noble-minded a woman should thus through selfishness consent to my death when I am in the prime of life and strength; it is impossible that she can carry to such a point maternal love, or rather delirium.
Our mere anticipations of life outrun its realities.
She turned her sound eye towards the land that she might get the earliest tidings of the approach of hunter or hound, and her injured eye towards the sea, from whence she entertained no anticipation of danger.
At the present moment you thrill with the glamour of the situation and the anticipation of the hunt.
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