retrojectionn.
/ˌrɛtrə(ʊ)ˈdʒɛkʃn/, U.S. /ˌrɛtrəˈdʒɛkʃ(ə)n/ The action or an act of applying or attributing something to an earlier time.
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the world > time > reckoning of time > chronology > [noun] > assignment to a time or dating > assignment to an earlier date
antedating1587
retrojection1825
1825 S. T. Coleridge Notebks. (1990) IV. §5202 A mere shameless retrojection of his own political and theological Hates on an illustrious Name of the Age before him.
1884 Science 28 Mar. 375/2 The retrojection or false location of a present mental image as a recollection.
1900 Expositor Jan. 14 The Priests' Code contains one of the most conspicuous of these retrojections.
1947 Amer. Jrnl. Philol. 68 33 He assumed a retrojection of the historical temple know to Naevius into the legendary past.
1997 J. K. Wright Classical Republican in Eighteenth-cent. France viii. 208 The idea of an ‘enduring conflict’ between liberal and republican ideals seems more of an anachronistic retrojection of late twentieth-century concerns.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2010; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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n.1825- backwards
- backwards compatibility
- backwards-compatible
- backwardscompatible
- backwardsloping
- backwardwending
- backwash
- backwashed
- backwasher
- backwashes
- backwashing
- backwater
- backwaters
- backway
- backwind
- backwinter
- backwood
- backwoodish
- backwoodishness
- backwoods
- backwoods peer
- backwoods-trained
- backwoodsman
- backwoodsmen
- backwoodstrained