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Prospective   /prəspˈɛktɪv/   Listen
adjective
Prospective  adj.  
1.
Of or pertaining to a prospect; furnishing a prospect; perspective. (Obs.) "Time's long and dark prospective glass."
2.
Looking forward in time; acting with foresight; opposed to retrospective. "The French king of Sweden are circumspect, industrious, and prospective, too, in this affair."
3.
Being within view or consideration, as a future event or contingency; relating to the future: expected; as, a prospective benefit. "Points on which the promises, at the time of ordination, had no prospective bearing."


noun
Prospective  n.  
1.
The scene before or around, in time or in space; view; prospect.
2.
A perspective glass. (Obs.)





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"Prospective" Quotes from Famous Books



... "and prospective benefactors must be humored." So he rested content with his ignorance, nor did he ever find out about Horvendile, though later Manuel must have ...
— Figures of Earth • James Branch Cabell
... unexpected consequence, which placed upon her a larger and more complicated burden, was due to the fact that her sense of self-protection had not been commensurate with her emotions. There were times when the prospective coming of the child gave her a sense of fear and confusion, because she did not know but that the child might eventually reproach her; but there was always that saving sense of eternal justice in life which would not permit her ...
— Jennie Gerhardt - A Novel • Theodore Dreiser
... war is not the overthrow of the slave-power, he still insists that Slavery is the cause of the war. This he attempts to establish historically and economically; nor does he leave the subject without a searching look into Southern society and a prospective glance at the issues of the contest. He has freely consulted American authorities, most of which are familiar to many of our readers; he has also turned to good account the reports of open-eyed English travellers, and the opinions of sensible ...
— Atlantic Monthly, Volume 10, Number 59, September, 1862 • Various
... near a good water supply, where by night the Folk could prosecute their accustomed fisheries. Agriculture and the care of domestic animals by daylight would have to be postponed for some time, possibly for a year or more. Above all, the health of the prospective ...
— Darkness and Dawn • George Allan England
... is not only old and unattractive; not only a sneak and a libertine; but he is a clumsy person, and he has not, as he might have done, taken Marianne's measure. The mere shock of his sudden transformation from a pious protector into a prospective "keeper," who is making a bid for a new concubine, has evidently an immense effect on her quick nervous temperament. She is not at all the kind of girl to like to be the plaything of an old man; and she is perfectly shrewd enough to see that vengeance, and fear as regards his nephew, have ...
— A History of the French Novel, Vol. 1 - From the Beginning to 1800 • George Saintsbury


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