protensive

Adjective

1. Drawn out; extended.
   • And then our patience is, as Christ's most exactly was, according to the will of God; when it is as extensive, as intensive, and as protensive as God requires it to be. - 1740, 1820, The Whole Works of John Flavel:
   • Time, Protension or protensive quantity, called likewise Duration, is a necessary condition of thought. It may be considered both in itself and in the things which it contains. - 1852, William Hamilton, Discussions on...
   • Examples of the sublime—of this sudden effort, and of this instantaneous desisting from the attempt—are manifested in the extensive sublime of Space, and in the protensive sublime of Eternity. - 1870, John Clark Murray,...
2. Anticipating the future; pertaining to protention.
   • The diversity as protensive is in the manifoldness of the successive instants through which the appearance as quality is prolonged . - 2009, Laurens Perseus Hickok, Rational Psychology, page 138:
   • Their heightened enjoyment Iser explains in terms of the protensive tension provoked by the strategic interruption of the narrative at crucial moments . - 2010, Robert Allen, Channels of Discourse, Reassembled, page 110:
   • When McNay talks about 'protensive' subject formation, she is talking, in many ways, about an imagined (future oriented) space of possibility (the imagined self performing, or the desired narrative). - 2013, Dr Helen...