Definitions
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- adverb In an
anticipating manner; looking forward;expectantly .
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Examples
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Well it's a good thing that I have 2 books to distract me while I anticipatingly which is apparently not a word but I'll use it anyway await.
Special Guest: An Interview with Larissa Ione Ann Aguirre 2009
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How many times has he let my lips linger anticipatingly above his ....
Dreams of leaning in the dark above you annabellee3 2006
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Nevertheless, as the second iron is already connected with the line, and the line is running, hence that weapon must, at all events, be anticipatingly tossed out of the boat, somehow and somewhere; else the most terrible jeopardy would involve all hands.
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I will say, that I was treated there very carefully and anticipatingly.
Yama: the pit Bernard Guilbert Guerney 1904
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Meantime, of the broken keel of Ahab's wrecked craft the carpenter made him another leg; while still as on the night before, slouched Ahab stood fixed within his scuttle; his hid, heliotrope glance anticipatingly gone backward on its dial; sat due eastward for the earliest sun.
Great Sea Stories Various 1897
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Ahab's wrecked craft the carpenter made him another leg; while still as on the night before, slouched Ahab stood fixed within his scuttle; his hid, heliotrope glance anticipatingly gone backward on its dial; sat due eastward for the earliest sun.
Moby Dick, or, the whale Herman Melville 1855
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Nevertheless, as the second iron is already connected with the line, and the line is running, hence that weapon must, at all events, be anticipatingly tossed out of the boat, somehow and somewhere; else the most terrible jeopardy would involve all hands.
Moby Dick, or, the whale Herman Melville 1855
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Meantime, of the broken keel of Ahab's wrecked craft the carpenter made him another leg; while still as on the night before, slouched Ahab stood fixed within his scuttle; his hid, heliotrope glance anticipatingly gone backward on its dial; sat due eastward for the earliest sun.
Moby Dick: or, the White Whale Herman Melville 1855
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Nevertheless, as the second iron is already connected with the line, and the line is running, hence that weapon must, at all events, be anticipatingly tossed out of the boat, somehow and somewhere; else the most terrible jeopardy would involve all hands.
Moby Dick: or, the White Whale Herman Melville 1855
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Nevertheless, as the second iron is already connected with the line, and the line is running, hence that weapon must, at all events, be anticipatingly tossed out of the boat, somehow and somewhere; else the most terrible jeopardy would involve all hands.
KristopherScott commented on the word anticipatingly
Why is this not a word when for one, it makes great usage sense, and two it's been used by others and even comes naturally to some?
March 6, 2017