anticipative

Example Sentences

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The President issued two proclamations—one anticipative, one celebrative.

From Time Magazine Archive

Mahalia was even more anticipative about her subsequent pilgrimage to the Holy Land.

From Time Magazine Archive

But had Pierre now reread the opening paragraph of her letter to him, he might have very quickly derived a powerful anticipative objection from his sister, which his own complete disinterestedness concealed from him.

From Pierre; or The Ambiguities by Melville, Herman

The Mother thought she had never been so happy before in her life, and the ugly little beast yelped with anticipative joy.

From The Very Small Person by Elliott, Elizabeth Shippen Green

Its posture is firm, steady, self-poised, conscious of rectitude, and anticipative of veritable and valuable results.

From The Continental Monthly, Vol. 5, No. 4, April, 1864 by Various