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[ re-truh-spek-tiv-lee ] / ˌrɛ trəˈspɛk tɪv li /
adverbwith contemplation of past situations, events, etc.: You should examine your relationship retrospectively. with retrospective effect; retroactively: The law operates retrospectively. Origin of retrospectivelyFirst recorded in 1600–10; retrospective + -ly Words nearby retrospectivelyretrosexual, retrospect, retrospection, retrospective, retrospective falsification, retrospectively, retrospondylolisthesis, retroussage, retroussé, retroversioflexion, retroversion Dictionary.com UnabridgedBased on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2020 Example sentences from the Web for retrospectivelyBut what happens once this retrospectively meager foreign aid money dries up? Obama Releases Aid To Palestinian Authority|Anna Lekas Miller|March 28, 2013|DAILY BEAST And if it's not the winning message now, how will it have retrospectively become the winning message on Wednesday morning? A Pre-Election Challenge for 'Real' Conservatives|David Frum|November 2, 2012|DAILY BEAST Our contraband is a woman, and she comes upon the scene of action in this wise, retrospectively. Shoulder-Straps|Henry Morford This also for a time, much at his leisure, Adam Verver retrospectively fixed. The Golden Bowl|Henry James
It looks as if she has arranged to charge us retrospectively by the hour for the stuff. Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 158, June 2, 1920|Various Tradition makes history, retrospectively, as it ought to have been, and as it never is. English Conferences of Ernest Renan|Ernest Renan One patient, who frequently showed this reaction, explained it retrospectively by saying that she wanted to be left alone. Benign Stupors|August Hoch
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