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
The Doctor, looking complacently expansive, cheerily anticipative, welcomed them on the doorstep.
From Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 104, April 8, 1893 by Sir F. C. (Francis Cowley) Burnand
The soft melancholy of the countenance and attitude of Adonis, as if anticipative of his early death, and the languid self-sufficiency of Paris, appeared to me equally admirable.
From Visits and Sketches at Home and Abroad with Tales and Miscellanies Now First Collected Vol. I (of 3) by Mrs. (Anna) Jameson
A little quiver of excitement mingled with anticipative satisfaction ran through him.
From The Destroying Angel by Louis Joseph Vance
