anticipative
adjective
anticipatively
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a word derived from
anticipative.
Example Sentences
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This is remarked, however, only incidentally and anticipatively; some other ideas must be first explained.
"Wait a spall," he said; and ran his hand anticipatively into his pocket.
From Vesty of the Basins by Sarah P. McLean Greene
The windows and the roof are of about the same date, i.e., early fourteenth century; the roof is anticipatively Perpendicular.
From Bell's Cathedrals: The Abbey Church of Tewkesbury with some Account of the Priory Church of Deerhurst Gloucestershire by H. J. L. J. (Henri Jean Louis Joseph) Massé
At which challenge one might almost have been tempted anticipatively to say at a venture—Scrooge!
From Charles Dickens as a Reader by Charles Foster Kent
“What are they worth again?” asked the elder Daniels, licking his lips anticipatively.
From The Boy Aviators' Flight for a Fortune by John Henry Goldfrap
