Anticipating

ppl. a. [f. ANTICIPATE v. + -ING².] Taking, apprehending, or occurring beforehand; forestalling.

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1611. Cotgr., Anticipant, anticipating, preventing, forestalling.

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1711. Shaftesb., Charact. (1737), III. 389. This natural Apprehension, or anticipating Sense of Unity.

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1825. Carlyle, Schiller, II. (1845), 75. His anticipating goodness.

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