Crossword-Solution: EXPECTATIVE
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Expectative | a. | Constituting an object of expectation; contingent. |
| Expectative | n. | Something in expectation; esp., an expectative grace. |
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Hint 1 meaning
An inflammatory disease of the skin, characterized by the
presence of redness and itching, an eruption of small vesicles, and the
discharge of a watery exudation, which often dries up, leaving the skin
covered with crusts; -- called also tetter, milk crust, and salt rheum.
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eruption
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Sentences with EXPECTATIVE (5)
Even _expectative graces_, or mandates nominating a person to succeed to a benefice upon the first vacancy, were thus sold.
Further: feeble, expectative and vacillating minds, deprived of the faculty to embrace in all its depth and extension the task before them,--such minds cannot have a clear purpose, nor the firm perception of ways and means leading to the aim, and still less have they the sternness of conviction so necessary for men dealing with such mighty events, on which depend the life and death of a society.
Expectative grace, a mandate given by the pope or a prince appointing a successor to any benefice before it becomes vacant.
During his youthful sojourn in Rome Ximenes procured papal "expectative letters" granting him the first preferment that should fall vacant in the diocese of Toledo.
Happily he carried in his pocket an _expectative_ letter, by which the pope granted him the first vacant benefice in the diocese of Toledo.