expectancy

noun

Etymology: From expectant + -cy or expect + -ancy.

1. 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 […]”

2. The state of being expected.
3. Future interest as to possession or enjoyment
4. expectation; expected value
5. 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 […]”