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retrospective |
2 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Retrospective \Re`tro*spec"tive\, a. [Cf. F. r['e]trospectif.] 1. Looking backward; contemplating things past; -- opposed to prospective; as a retrospective view. The sage, with retrospective eye. --Pope. 2. Having reference to what is past; affecting things past; retroactive; as a retrospective law. Inflicting death by a retrospective enactment. --Macaulay. From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: retrospective adj : concerned with or related to the past; "retrospective self-justification" [ant: {prospective}] n : an exhibition of a representative selection of an artist's life work
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