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Definition of Retrospective

1. Adjective. Concerned with or related to the past. "Retrospective self-justification"

2. Noun. An exhibition of a representative selection of an artist's life work.

Definition of Retrospective

1. a. Looking backward; contemplating things past; -- opposed to prospective; as, a retrospective view.

Definition of Retrospective

1. Adjective. of, relating to, or contemplating the past ¹

2. Adjective. looking backwards ¹

3. Adjective. affecting or influencing past things; retroactive ¹

4. Noun. an exhibition of works from an extended period of an artist's activity ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Retrospective

1. [n -S]

Medical Definition of Retrospective

1. Relating to retrospection. (05 Mar 2000)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Retrospective

retrorockets retrorse retros retroscape retroscapes retroserrate retrosnub retrospect retrospected retrospectical

retrospecting retrospection retrospections retrospective retrospective determinism retrospective falsification retrospective memory retrospective studies retrospective study retrospectively

retrospectives retrospects retrospondylolisthesis retrosternal retrosternal hernia retrosternal space retrosteroid retrostyled

Literary usage of Retrospective

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Commentaries on the Laws of England by William Blackstone, William Carey Jones (1915)
"These two considerations would scom to make retrospective legislation in the ... Retrospective legislation is that which changes a right or a duty in the ..."

2. United States Supreme Court Reports by Lawyers Co-operative Publishing Company, United States Supreme Court (1912)
""This case presents the same question of un- constitutionality of retrospective taxation as the one just decided of New Orleans v. Poutz, 14 La. Ann. 853. ..."

3. On the Interpretation of Statutes by Peter Benson Maxwell, Alfred Bray Kempe (1896)
"Even in construing a section which is to a certain extent retrospective, ... For it is to be observed that the retrospective effect of a statute may ..."

4. Commentaries on the Law of Statutory Crimes: Including the Written Laws and by Joel Prentiss Bishop (1901)
"In the practical sense,— Prospective and retrospective, defined. ... Under our written constitutions, some forms of retrospective legislation are by their ..."

5. Lawyers' Reports Annotated by Lawyers Co-operative Publishing Company (1901)
"A retrospective operation is not favored, and a statute will be construed to have a prospective effect, if such a conclusion is permissible. ..."

6. The Constitutional History of New York: From the Beginning of the Colonial by Charles Zebina Lincoln (1906)
"Laws are not unconstitutional simply for the reason that they are retrospective. Retrospective laws which do not impair the obligation of contracts, ..."

7. Judicial and Statutory Definitions of Words and Phrases by West Publishing Company (1905)
"The term "retrospective law" Includes every law that takes away or impairs rights vested ... Every ex post facto law is necessarily retrospective, but every ..."

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