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

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

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

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

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

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