In the 16th century, Turkish women could divorce their husbands if the man failed to keep his family’s pot filled with coffee.
EXPECTANCE
Noun
expectance (countable and uncountable, plural expectances)
Alternative form of expectancy
Source: Wiktionary
Ex*pect"ance, Ex*pect"an*cy, n.
1. The act of expecting ; expectation. Milton.
2. That which is expected, or looked or waited for with interest; the object of expectation or hope. The expectancy and rose of the fair state. Shak. Estate in expectancy (Law), one the possession of which a person is entitled to have at some future time, either as a remainder or reversion, or on the death of some one. Burrill.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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