Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Taking back or again; tending to or of the nature of resumption.
- noun A restoring medicine; a restorative.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Taking back; resuming, or tending toward resumption.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective That is in the nature of
resumption
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Examples
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Look at that first paragraph; I can agree with the removal of the resumptive we and the replacement of the awkward progressing with working for.
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Look at that first paragraph; I can agree with the removal of the resumptive we and the replacement of the awkward progressing with working for.
I grow weary of defending Sarah Palin « Motivated Grammar 2009
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The long noun phrase is introduced at the beginning, recalled with il, and the sentence uses this resumptive il as the subject.
Yanni illustrates an important point about grammar « Motivated Grammar 2008
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French, for example, uses resumptive pronouns when you have some long subject that might confound the reader [please, please excuse how dusty my French is]:
Yanni illustrates an important point about grammar « Motivated Grammar 2008
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From reading those pages, however, it looks like the nominative suffix there comes from a resumptive? subject pronoun which was formerly attached to the following verb; and although the same suffix is related to the demonstrative and personal pronouns, that doesn't mean it's descended from them; finally, it doesn't say that an article has the same form.
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She is a devoted fan of Joseph Williams's various books, such as Style: Toward Clarity and Grace which has an entire chapter on length, and shortly after we had met she said to me, You must use more summative and resumptive modifiers.
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She is a devoted fan of Joseph Williams's various books, such as Style: Toward Clarity and Grace which has an entire chapter on length, and shortly after we had met she said to me, You must use more summative and resumptive modifiers.
Archive 2005-06-01 2005
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In his poem, he chooses to regard this "as resumptive evidence of a prior state of existence," an idea "not advanced in revelation" but with "nothing there to contradict it."
Fitzgerald's 'Radiant World' Flanagan, Thomas 2000
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Mr. Thomas has been skilfully resumptive of a passing period of popular thought; but Mr. Kennedy has been resumptive on a larger scale, and has built his play upon the wisdom of the centuries.
The Theory of the Theatre Clayton Hamilton
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When it was produced, it was not novel, but resumptive, in its thought; and therefore it succeeded.
The Theory of the Theatre Clayton Hamilton
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