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Grammar : Noun
Spell : re-truh-spekt
Phonetic Transcription : ˈrɛ trəˌspɛkt



Definition of retrospect

Origin :
  • c.1600, "a regard or reference" (to something), from Latin retrospectum, past participle of retrospicere "look back," from retro- "back" (see retro-) + specere "look at" (see scope (n.1)). Meaning "survey of past events" is from 1660s.
  • noun afterthought
Example sentences :
  • The view of the future was as dreadful as the retrospect of the past.
  • Extract from : « Tales And Novels, Volume 5 (of 10) » by Maria Edgeworth
  • Somehow her parts seemed always to dwindle this way in retrospect.
  • Extract from : « Audrey Craven » by May Sinclair
  • It was a mournful pull ashore, and tragic in the retrospect.
  • Extract from : « Wild Justice: Stories of the South Seas » by Lloyd Osbourne
  • He racked his brain for a stray gleam of retrospect, but it was not forthcoming.
  • Extract from : « Garrison's Finish » by W. B. M. Ferguson
  • Yet now in the retrospect, it seems hardly to have been the retreat for an invalid.
  • Extract from : « Mark Twain, A Biography, 1835-1910, Complete » by Albert Bigelow Paine
  • Recent Paris and Calcutta retrospect chides his dullness of perception.
  • Extract from : « Oswald Langdon » by Carson Jay Lee
  • Indeed he had succeeded in reality, as well as in retrospect, in evading his grief.
  • Extract from : « Peak and Prairie » by Anna Fuller
  • It was seen plainly in retrospect; he had not noticed it much at the time.
  • Extract from : « Tristram of Blent » by Anthony Hope
  • She smiled in retrospect; it would have been pardonable if Neeld had smiled too.
  • Extract from : « Tristram of Blent » by Anthony Hope
  • Most of us retrospect or anticipate and so lose the present.
  • Extract from : « The Damsel and the Sage » by Elinor Glyn

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