Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Making or implying a promise.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective rare Making a promise; implying a promise; promising.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Making or
implying apromise .
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Examples
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He has fourteen moods; his _interrogative, optative, hortative, promissive, precautive, requisitive, enunciative_, &c. But as far as philosophical accuracy and the convenience and advantage of the learner are concerned, it is believed that no arrangement is preferable to the following.
English Grammar in Familiar Lectures Samuel Kirkham
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And all declarations and expressions of the mind concerning future actions and omissions, are either promissive, as I will do, or not do; or provisive, as for example, If this be done or not done, this will follow; or imperative, as Do this, or do it not.
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