resumptive

[ ri-zuhmp-tiv ]

adjective

1. that summarizes:

   a resumptive statement.

2. that tends to resume or repeat:

   a speech so resumptive that its point was lost.

Other Words From

• re·sumptive·ly adverb
• unre·sumptive adjective

Word History and Origins

Origin of resumptive¹

First recorded in 1850–55; resumpt(ion) + -ive

Example Sentences

Like many of Lucian's compositions, it has what may be termed a retrospective and resumptive value.

From Project Gutenberg

The great epics have attained this resumptive and historical significance only by exhibiting as subject-matter a vast and communal struggle, in which an entire race, an entire nation, an entire organized religion has been concerned,—a struggle imagined as so vast that it has shaken heaven as well as earth and called to conflict not only men but also gods.

From Project Gutenberg

It is resumptive of the nation that produced it: all phases of Spanish life and character, ideals and temperament, are epitomized within it.

From Project Gutenberg

In the broad and social sense, the epic is undeniably a greater type of fiction than the novel, because it is more resumptive of life in the large, and looks upon humanity with a vaster sweep of vision; but in the deep and personal sense, the novel is the greater, because it is more capable of an intimate study of individual emotion.

From Project Gutenberg

It is resumptive of the nation that produced it: all phases of Spanish life and character, ideals and temperament, are epitomized within it.

From Project Gutenberg