suspensive

suspensive [suspensivus+-e], in a manner leaving the reader or hearer in suspense or expecting more. ‘assecutus es meam ‥ patientiam, persecutiones, passiones, qualia mihi facta sunt Antiochiae, Iconii, et Lystris, quales’ ~e ‘persecutiones sustinui, et ex omnibus eripuit me Dominus’ Lanfr. Comment. Paul. 366.