Pronounced: a-puh-LOH-nee-uhn, adj
Notes: You probably know one meaning, but there is a second one that you may not know (I didn’t)
Yesterday’s word
The word resumptive means (as you might guess) “tending to resume, repeat, or summarize”
First usage
Our word goes back a long way; it came into English in the late 1300s
Background / Comments
I didn’t know that our word existed, which is why I posted it — but it is pretty easy to guess the meaning. Our word comes from the Latin word resumere (to resume), which comes from re- (again) and sumere (to take).
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