[f. as prec. + -ING2.]
1. That expects; expectant.
1714. Swift, Pres. St. Affairs, Wks. 1755, II. I. 219. That impatience which the frailty of human nature gives to expecting heirs.
1726. Chetwood, Adv. Capt. R. Boyle, 80. The Captain came in with an expecting Face.
1804. Jane Austen, Watsons (1879), 319. Her little expecting partner.
1842. G. S. Faber, Provinc. Lett. (1844), II. 94. To reside and labour in his own expecting Greek Diocese.
¶ 2. catachr. = EXPECTED. Obs. rare–1.
1621. Lady M. Wroth, Urania, 496. The Campe they gained, the night before the expecting time of Combat.
Hence Expectingly adv., in an expecting manner or attitude; expectantly.
1693. Dryden, Juvenal, VI. Prepar’d for fight, expectingly she lies.
1833. Blackw. Mag., XXXIII. 112. The waiter was standing expectingly.
1838. New Monthly Mag., LII. 195. Firmly, yet expectingly, sat the last woman.
1871. Lit. World, 6 Jan., 1. We thought well enough of Napoleon III. to listen expectingly for some word [etc.].
