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Definition of Look back

1. Verb. Look towards one's back. "They look back up the hill"; "Don't look back while you walk"

2. Verb. Look back upon (a period of time, sequence of events); remember. "She reviewed her achievements with pride"

Definition of Look back

1. Verb. (&lit look back) ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Lexicographical Neighbors of Look Back

look-alike look-alikes look-down, shoot-down look-in look-out look-over look-see look across look after look ahead

look alike look and feel look around look at look away look back (current term) look backward look before you leap look book look daggers

look down on look down one's nose look down upon look for look forward look forward to look here look into look like look off

Literary usage of Look back

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

1. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann (1913)
"... his wife, anil two daughters, and brought them out of the city, warning them not to look back nor to remain in the vicinity of the doomed city, ..."

2. View of the State of Europe During the Middle Ages by Henry Hallam (1837)
"Henry II. is silent about these, although he repeats the confirmation of his grandfather's charter-f The people, however, had begun to look back to a more ..."

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