retroactively

[ re-troh-ak-tiv-lee ]

Phonetic (Standard)IPA

adverb

in a way that includes or refers to events that happened before the relevant rule, decision, or other measure came into effect:
One other state has just passed a Racial Justice Act, but it doesn’t allow any of the inmates now on death row to file claims retroactively.

They want Lawrence to suck it up and smile for the camera, however retroactively.

If the women were duped, that consent can retroactively be denied.

Consequently, the December COLA increase would have to be paid retroactively.

Let's not lose sight of the other leg--the I-was-CEO-I-wasn't-in-charge-I-retired-retroactively-but-I-still-got-paid leg.

Besides, Gillespie said, Romney 'retired retroactively' from Bain once he was done working on the Olympics.

Retroactively the demand for mystery, which is the very soul of interest, must find new expression.

Waldeck-Rousseau had intended not to apply his law retroactively.

Such patterns, circumscribed by human self-constitution in the natural and cultural context, are significant only retroactively.

In other words, was the principle, newly recovered, to be applied retroactively?

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