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Retrospectively   /rˌɛtroʊspˈɛktɪvli/   Listen
Retrospectively

adverb
1.
In a manner contemplative of past events.





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"Retrospectively" Quotes from Famous Books



... by a term it began to be called by at the Reformation, that of "the New Learning." Without supplanting the ancient, the modern must grow up with it; the farther we advance in society, it will more deeply occupy our interests; and it has already proved what Bacon, casting his philosophical views retrospectively and prospectively, has observed, "that Time ...
— Curiosities of Literature, Vol. II (of 3) - Edited, With Memoir And Notes, By His Son, The Earl Of Beaconsfield • Isaac D'Israeli


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