Definition of Anticipating

1. Verb. (present participle of anticipate) ¹

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Definition of Anticipating

1. anticipate [v] - See also: anticipate

Lexicographical Neighbors of Anticipating

antichronism
antichronisms
antichurch
anticigarette
anticipable
anticipant
anticipants
anticipatable
anticipate
anticipated
anticipatedly
anticipately
anticipates
anticipatest
anticipateth
anticipating (current term)
anticipatingly
anticipation
anticipations
anticipative
anticipatively
anticipator
anticipatorily
anticipators
anticipatory
anticipatory breach
anticipatory control
anticipointment
anticircular
anticircumcision

Literary usage of Anticipating

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. An Illustrated Treatise on the Law of Evidence by Thomas Welburn Hughes (1905)
"anticipating the defence.—The pleadings may be such as to justify the plaintiff when introducing his evidence to anticipate the defense and seek to avoid it ..."

2. A Complete Collection of State Trials and Proceedings for High Treason and by Thomas Bayly Howell, William Cobbett (1817)
"... or rather throughout the whole civilized world, were anticipating the passions and judgments of the public against a subject of England upon his trial, ..."

3. Dictionary of National Biography by LESLIE. STEPHEN (1895)
"panied him in his three weeks' tour through the highlands, Burns at the outset (according to his diary) anticipating much entertainment from his friend's ..."

4. The Way of All Flesh by Samuel Butler, Richard Alexander Streatfeild (1916)
"But this is anticipating, and may perhaps also convey a wrong impression, for from the outset he did ..."

5. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann, Edward Aloysius Pace, Condé Bénoist Pallen, Thomas Joseph Shahan, John Joseph Wynne (1913)
"But, in truth, Fleury was simply anticipating the policy of the renversement des alliances (breaking up of the alliances), which began in 1756, ..."

6. Presidential Advisory Committee on Gulf War Veterans' Illnesses: Final Report edited by Joyce C Laslof, John D Baldeschwieler, Marguerite Knox (1997)
"anticipating Post-conflict Health Concerns Several concerns identified during the Committee's examination of Gulf War veterans' illnesses —issues related to ..."

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