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Not so, when the sense is resumptive: as, "The additions, which are very considerable, are chiefly such as are calculated to obviate objections."

From The Grammar of English Grammars by Brown, Goold

According to my notion, these two sentences clearly convey two very different meanings; the relative, in the former, being restrictive, but, in the latter, resumptive of the sense of the antecedent.

From The Grammar of English Grammars by Brown, Goold

Like many of Lucian's compositions, it has what may be termed a retrospective and resumptive value.

From A Problem in Greek Ethics Being an inquiry into the phenomenon of sexual inversion by Symonds, John Addington

When it was produced, it was not novel, but resumptive, in its thought; and therefore it succeeded.

From The Theory of the Theatre by Hamilton, Clayton Meeker

Mr. Thomas has been skilfully resumptive of a passing period of popular thought; but Mr. Kennedy has been resumptive on a larger scale, and has built his play upon the wisdom of the centuries.

From The Theory of the Theatre by Hamilton, Clayton Meeker