Lexic.us

Definition of Anticipative

1. Adjective. Marked by eager anticipation. "An expectant hush"

Definition of Anticipative

1. a. Anticipating, or containing anticipation.

Definition of Anticipative

1. Adjective. Of or pertaining to anticipation; inclined to anticipate; expectant. ¹

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Lexicographical Neighbors of Anticipative

Literary usage of Anticipative

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. English Grammar by Lillian Gertrude Kimball (1912)
"anticipative SUBJECT 368. We have learned that the pronoun it may be used as an anticipative subject to throw the real subject after the predicate. ..."

2. British Poets of the Nineteenth Century: Poems by Wordsworth, Coleridge by Curtis Hidden Page (1910)
"... So, in anticipative gratitude. What if I take up my hope and prophesy ? When the hour grows ripe, and a certain dotard Is pitched, no parcel that needs ..."

3. Nature and the Supernatural: As Together Constituting the One System of God by Horace Bushnell (1861)
"anticipative CONSEQUENCES. IK the account offered of the consequences of sin, we hare spoken of these consequences as effects transpiring under laws, ..."

4. Nature and the supernatural, as together constituting the one system of God by Horace Bushnell (1862)
"anticipative CONSEQUENCES. IN the account offered of the consequences of sin, we have spoken of these consequences as effects transpiring under laws, ..."

5. A Grammar of the German Language: Designed for a Thoro and Practical Study by George Oliver Curme (1922)
"Later after the analogy of anticipative es, as in Es freut mich, ... Originally anticipative es had a little concrete force as it pointed to the following ..."

6. English Composition: Adapted to the Wants of High Schools, Preparatory by Alfred Hix Welsh (1889)
"7. 15y the use of the expletive there and the anticipative it: — (1) Excellence without labor is impossible = There can be no excellence without labor. ..."

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