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

• unresumptive
  adjective
• resumptively
  adverb

Etymology

Origin of resumptive

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

Example Sentences

The drama, by its very nature, is an art traditional in form and resumptive in its subject-matter.

From The Theory of the Theatre by Hamilton, Clayton Meeker

Not so, when the sense is resumptive: as, "The additions, which are very considerable, are chiefly such as are calculated to obviate objections."

From The Grammar of English Grammars by Brown, Goold

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 Union And Communion or Thoughts on the Song of Solomon by Taylor, James Hudson

When it was produced, it was not novel, but resumptive, in its thought; and therefore it succeeded.

From The Theory of the Theatre by Hamilton, Clayton Meeker

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

From A Problem in Greek Ethics Being an inquiry into the phenomenon of sexual inversion by Symonds, John Addington