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

Its posture is firm, steady, self-poised, conscious of rectitude, and anticipative of veritable and valuable results.

From The Continental Monthly, Vol. 5, No. 4, April, 1864 by Various

A little quiver of excitement mingled with anticipative satisfaction ran through him.

From The Destroying Angel by Vance, Louis Joseph