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

All her vital energy was busy in her anticipative brain, and glancing thence in sparkles from her eyes, and quivering down in swift currents to her restless little feet.

From Faith Gartney's Girlhood by Whitney, A. D. T. (Adeline Dutton Train)

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

For there was a very remarkable comet visible during most of the time, and Dapsul, ever melancholy and anticipative of evil, considered that he was involved in its influence.

From The Serapion Brethren. Vol. II by Hoffmann, Ernst Theordor Wilhelm