resumptive
Americanadjective
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that summarizes.
a resumptive statement.
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that tends to resume or repeat.
a speech so resumptive that its point was lost.
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Etymology
Origin of resumptive
First recorded in 1850–55; resumpt(ion) + -ive
Example Sentences
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According to my notion, these two sentences clearly convey two very different meanings; the relative, in the former, being restrictive, but, in the latter, resumptive of the sense of the antecedent.
From The Grammar of English Grammars by Brown, Goold
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
Here the restrictive sense is well expressed by one relative, and the resumptive by an other.
From The Grammar of English Grammars by Brown, Goold
Mr. Thomas has been skilfully resumptive of a passing period of popular thought; but Mr. Kennedy has been resumptive on a larger scale, and has built his play upon the wisdom of the centuries.
From The Theory of the Theatre by Hamilton, Clayton Meeker
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
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