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
The cry of the angel, announcing her fall, as Mr. Elliot remarks, seems to be anticipative, and not retrospective.
From A Brief Commentary on the Apocalypse by Sylvester Bliss
There was a note of anticipative defiance in the young voice as she spoke.
From The Red City A Novel of the Second Administration of President Washington by S. Weir (Silas Weir) Mitchell
A good hard gallop would have cured her anticipative homesickness, for it must be a very black care indeed that keeps its seat behind the rider.
From Westways by S. Weir (Silas Weir) Mitchell
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