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

She had traveled with him so long and so doughtily that he had never been able to form any anticipative picture of himself without her.

From The Best Short Stories of 1919 and the Yearbook of the American Short Story by O'Brien, Edward J. (Edward Joseph Harrington)

Such is the picture Rutebeuf paints of his life—a life curiously anticipative of that of many a Bohemian poet since.

From Aucassin & Nicolette And Other Mediaeval Romances and Legends by Mason, Eugene

X 151 note 1.63.On the anticipative construct, see § 138 of the grammar.64.nu-mal are uncertain.

From Sumerian Liturgies and Psalms by Langdon, Stephen