anticipative
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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
He divined that at this she would be very brave and buoyant, and he was lost in anticipative admiration; when she was neither he admired more than ever.
From Romance Island by Zona Gale
A little quiver of excitement mingled with anticipative satisfaction ran through him.
From The Destroying Angel by Louis Joseph Vance
So, by the way, did Split, out in the hall, her eye at the crack of the door, her feet lifting alternately with anticipative rapture.
From The Madigans by Orson Lowell
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