Definition of "anticipations" []

• Plural form of anticipation. (noun)

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• "During the early history of Virginia, Yorktown was a place of much commercial importance, and there are again anticipations of a magnificent future for this dilapidated and desolated village."
• "Madeline had gone to bed that Sunday night after her meeting with Ted in the woods, full of the happiest kind of anticipations and shy, foolish, impossible dreams."
• "Prof.A. C. Seward discuss Prichard's "anticipations" in _More Letters of C.arles Darwin_, Vol. _I. _ p. 43, and come to the conclusion that the evolutionary passages are entirely neutralised by others of an opposite trend."