anticipant

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But you know what bothers me now that Twilight is so big and its one of the most anticipant movies of 2009 everyone wants in on the action like those Disney stars! eww!!!

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  1. adjective Coming or acting in advance: clouds anticipant of a storm.
  2. adjective Expectant; anticipating: a team anticipant of victory.
  3. noun One who anticipates.

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  • But you know what bothers me now that Twilight is so big and its one of the most anticipant movies of 2009 everyone wants in on the action like those Disney stars! eww!!! —  Entertainment Weekly's PopWatch
  • O meek anticipant of that sure pain —  Poetical Works of Matthew Arnold
  • His gaze troubled her, and when he withdrew his eyes she looked at him, anticipant and fearing. —  Spring Days
  • She looked back into the hideous square hall, with its rows of chattering anticipant people, and up to the gallery packed with faces dyed yellowish drab by the near unmitigated gas sunburst, and she smiled brilliantly. —  The Judge
  • Inside the great temple the people of Nedra were singing and chanting with anticipant joy; outside the world was smiling benignly. —  Nedra
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  1. from Latin anticipan(t-)s, present participle of anticipare, anticipate: see anticipate.
 

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