Retrospect
Pronunciation
- IPA: /ˈrɛtroˌspɛkt/
Origin
Latin retrÅspectum, from retrÅspicio ("to look back at").
Full definition of retrospect
Noun
retrospect
(plural retrospects)- consideration of past times
- 1853, Charlotte Bronte, "Villette":My mind, calmer and stronger now than last night, made for itself some imperious rules, prohibiting under deadly penalties all weak retrospect of happiness past; commanding a patient journeying through the wilderness of the present...
- 1976, Terry Kay, The Year the Lights Came On, 1989 edition, ISBN 0820311286, page 298:Whether, like Colin, in retrospect Willie Lee and Baptist would feel that what has vanished was greater than what was achieved, is not something we can predict.
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Verb
- To look or refer back to; to reflect on
- 1804: Alexander Hamilton, Letter to John Adams (Bartlett) - To give a correct idea of the circumstances.., it may be useful to retrospect to an early period.