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Word entry · 15 letters

retrospectively

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"Looking back"

15 letters · collected on this word page

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Definitions

  1. in a manner contemplative of past events

Word origin

From retrospective + -ly.

Used in a sentence

  • Near-synonyms: in retrospect, in hindsight
  • The infelicity of this shift of subject only becomes apparent, again retrospectively, in line eight, directly after the reader's encounter with yet another inscrutable Spenserism […]

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