anticipant
Americanadjective
noun
adjective
noun
Etymology
Origin of anticipant
1620–30; < Latin anticipant- (stem of anticipāns, present participle of anticipāre ) taking before, equivalent to anti- (variant of ante- ante- ) + -cip- (combining form of capere to take) + -ant- -ant
Example Sentences
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The bride, seeing these two dying animals, and hearing the cries of anticipant ravens in the empty heavens, runs for home and father.
From Time Magazine Archive
Inside the great temple the people of Nedra were singing and chanting with anticipant joy; outside the world was smiling benignly.
From Nedra by George Barr McCutcheon
Motion stirred there; the pair of them laughed like anticipant children when two wide-winged moths swam into sight and floated toward them, eyes glowing like veiled emeralds.
From Pet Farm by Roger D. Aycock
O meek anticipant of that sure pain Whose sureness gray-hair'd scholars hardly learn!
From Poetical Works of Matthew Arnold by Matthew Arnold
He said "Now" with a little sucking in of breath and a thin anticipant smile and spun on his heel.
From Hooded Detective, Volume III No. 2, January, 1942 by Various
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