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retrospectively

[ re-truh-spek-tiv-lee ]

adverb

  1. with contemplation of past situations, events, etc.:

    You should examine your relationship retrospectively.

  2. with retrospective effect; retroactively:

    The law operates retrospectively.



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Word History and Origins

Origin of retrospectively1

First recorded in 1600–10; retrospective ( def ) + -ly ( def )

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Example Sentences

The constitution was rewritten retrospectively in an attempt to put the concession beyond legal challenge.

But what happens once this retrospectively meager foreign aid money dries up?

And if it's not the winning message now, how will it have retrospectively become the winning message on Wednesday morning?

Some may say that a former president of course will do well retrospectively.

This week has the feel of one that might become retrospectively pivotal.

That period viewed retrospectively seems to me like one of a kind of madness.

Mr. Jaggers nodded his head retrospectively two or three times, and actually drew a sigh.

Purposes somehow work retrospectively so as to determine the course of events towards a good end.

Why then should not the satisfactory plum shed its halo retrospectively upon what precedes and be taken as a sign of virtue?

In fact, all that has become may be explained retrospectively, but the beginning of anything whatever did not become.

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