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What does expectative mean?

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Adjective
  1. Of or pertaining to an expectation
  2. (canon law) Of or pertaining to the reversion of a benefice
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Both an opening and a conclusion, the sentence suspends the spectator in a never-ending expectative, as to underline the fact that looking forward to en event is often more exciting than its advent.
They went to Stuttgart, where the Wrtemberg Government kept up a sort of expectative neutrality.
We make the results tracking and the expectative suitableness, in accordance with the stipulated quality controls and the offered guarantees.
He is young enough to forgive, and to be forgiven, the possession and the expectative, at least for some years.
The principle of equality provides equal initial opportunities to achieve economic aims, although does not guarantee equal expectative success to everybody.
It was too slow for their eagerness and expectative grants were sought for and made in advance so as to profit by the next victim.

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