anticipative
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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
De Courval, rising, bowed to the anticipative partner, and said, "No; the President may want me."
From The Red City A Novel of the Second Administration of President Washington by S. Weir (Silas Weir) Mitchell
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 William Dean Howells
During the next few days the village was in a state of anticipative pleasure and of effort to find for the rummage-sale articles which were damaged or useless.
From Westways by S. Weir (Silas Weir) Mitchell
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