An archaic or obsolete form referring to the act of expecting or looking for something.
From Latin expectio, related to expectare. This is a very old word that was largely replaced by 'expectation' as English evolved; it appears in Middle English texts but became obsolete by the 17th century.
You can spot 'expection' in Shakespeare-era texts, but it lost out to 'expectation' in the competition for survival among English words. Language works like natural selection—longer or more common variations often eliminate their cousins.
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