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

This was peculiarly the appanage of youth, being the anticipative melancholy, the pensive foreboding, distilled from the blighted hopes of former generations of youth.

From Imaginary Interviews by Howells, William Dean

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

How does the reader show that ll. 7-12 are merely anticipative?

From The Ontario High School Reader by Marty, A.E.