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.
He had left his seal-oil lamp burning and now it was with an anticipative chuckle of joy that he untied the drawstring.
From The New North by Cameron, Agnes Deans
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
