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

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

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

Such is the picture Rutebeuf paints of his life—a life curiously anticipative of that of many a Bohemian poet since.

From Aucassin & Nicolette And Other Mediaeval Romances and Legends by Mason, Eugene

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.