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Retrospective   /rˌɛtrəspˈɛktɪv/   Listen
adjective
Retrospective  adj.  
1.
Looking backward; contemplating things past; opposed to prospective; as, a retrospective view. "The sage, with retrospective eye."
2.
Having reference to what is past; affecting things past; retroactive; as, a retrospective law. "Inflicting death by a retrospective enactment."





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"Retrospective" Quotes from Famous Books



... thorns men by means of hard and cruel words, thou must know, ever carrieth in his mouth the Rakshasas. Prosperity and luck fly away at his very sight. Thou shouldst ever keep the virtuous before thee as thy models; thou shouldst ever with retrospective eye compare thy acts with those of the virtuous; thou shouldst ever disregard the hard words of the wicked. Thou shouldst ever make the conduct of the wise the model upon which thou art to act thyself. The man hurt by the arrows of cruel speech hurled from one's lips, weepeth day and night. ...
— The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 1 • Kisari Mohan Ganguli
... program I figured out on shipboard. But, as is so frequently the case with the most pleasing things in life, I found the anticipation rather outshone the realisation. Already I detect myself, in a retrospective mood, hankering for the savoury ragouts we used to get in peasant homes in obscure French villages, and for the meals they gave us at the regimental messes of our own forces, where the cooking was the home sort and good ...
— Eating in Two or Three Languages • Irvin S. Cobb
... the Act—as usual. He thinks it's retrospective, and that he needn't pay past debts. They may make trouble, but I fancy ...
— Letters of Travel (1892-1913) • Rudyard Kipling
... thoroughly conversant with the present stage attained by this branch of pathology, to which he has himself rendered important service. I asked Doctor Georges Dumas, Professor at the Sorbonne, whether sufficient material exists for science to make a retrospective diagnosis of Jeanne's case. He replied to my inquiry in a letter which appears as the first Appendix to ...
— The Life of Joan of Arc, Vol. 1 and 2 (of 2) • Anatole France
... was now westward from over the river, and he felt the electric currents of joyous excitement, retrospective fear, and, above all, of eager, almost ferocious, curiosity, linking up rapidly about him. The rough and ready cordon of special constables seemed powerless to dam the human tide, and caught in that ...
— Defenders of Democracy • Militia of Mercy


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