Definition of Look backward

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

Exact synonyms: Look Back
Generic synonyms: Look

Lexicographical Neighbors of Look Backward

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
look backward (current term)
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
look on

Literary usage of Look backward

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

1. The Olden Time: A Monthly Publication Devoted to the Preservation of by Neville B. Craig (1876)
"... look backward forthe Iroquois us for a race which has been blotted from existence: remembering them as our predecessors—the people whose sachems had no ..."

2. American Game-bird Shooting by George Bird Grinnell (1910)
"THE SHOOTING OF THE FUTURE A look backward When the white men came to America they found wild birds and animals very abundant. The reproductive energy of ..."

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