anticipative
Example Sentences
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Mahalia was even more anticipative about her subsequent pilgrimage to the Holy Land.
From Time Magazine Archive
The President issued two proclamations—one anticipative, one celebrative.
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)
On the contrary, they show a dreary apathy, morbid fearfulness, or a belligerent self-defence, anticipative of other forms of the cruel neglect which has been their dreary experience.
From Education in The Home, The Kindergarten, and The Primary School by Peabody, Elizabeth P. (Palmer)
Jubilation glowed in the witch's glance; anticipative relish of the flavour of triumph lent her voice a shriller note.
From Nobody by Jacobs, W. L.
