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
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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 Clayton Meeker Hamilton
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 John Addington Symonds
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 Goold Brown
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 Clayton Meeker Hamilton
When it was produced, it was not novel, but resumptive, in its thought; and therefore it succeeded.
From The Theory of the Theatre by Clayton Meeker Hamilton
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