resumptive

American  

[ri-zuhmp-tiv] / rɪˈzʌmp tɪv /

adjective

1. that summarizes.

   a resumptive statement.

2. that tends to resume or repeat.

   a speech so resumptive that its point was lost.

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Other Word Forms

• resumptively adverb
• unresumptive adjective

Etymology

Origin of resumptive

First recorded in 1850–55; resumpt(ion) + -ive

Example Sentences

Like many of Lucian's compositions, it has what may be termed a retrospective and resumptive value.

From Project Gutenberg

The great epics have attained this resumptive and historical significance only by exhibiting as subject-matter a vast and communal struggle, in which an entire race, an entire nation, an entire organized religion has been concerned,—a struggle imagined as so vast that it has shaken heaven as well as earth and called to conflict not only men but also gods.

From Project Gutenberg

The great epics have attained this resumptive and historical significance only by exhibiting as subject-matter a vast and communal struggle, in which an entire race, an entire nation, an entire organized religion has been concerned,––a struggle imagined as so vast that it has shaken heaven as well as earth and called to conflict not only men but also gods.

From Project Gutenberg

Some have seen in these words, "Return, return," an indication of the rapture of the Church; and explain some parts of the subsequent context, which appear inconsistent with this view, as resumptive rather than progressive.

From Project Gutenberg

The timeliness of the play lay in the fact that it was produced late enough in the history of its subject to be selectively resumptive, and not nearly so much in the fact that it was produced early enough to forestall other dramatic presentations of the same materials.

From Project Gutenberg