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Word Meanings - RETROSPECT - Book Publishers vocabulary database

To look backward; hence, to affect or concern what is past. It may be useful to retrospect to an early period. A. Hamilton.

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  • DISREGARDFULLY
    Negligently; heedlessly.
  • DISMISSIVE
    Giving dismission.
  • RETROSPECT
    A looking back on things past; view or contemplation of the past. Cowper. We may introduce a song without retrospect to the old comedy. Landor.
  • DISMISSAL
    Dismission; discharge. Officeholders were commanded faithfully to enforce it, upon pain of immediate dismissal. Motley.
  • REVIEW
    Etym: 1. To view or see again; to look back on "I shall review Sicilia." Shak. 2. To go over and examine critically or deliberately. Specifically: To reconsider; to revise, as a manuscript before printing it, or a book for a new edition. To go
  • REVIEWABLE
    Capable of being reviewed.
  • DISMISS
    1. To send away; to give leave of departure; to cause or permit to go; to put away. He dismissed the assembly. Acts xix. 41. Dismiss their cares when they dismiss their flock. Cowper. Though he soon dismissed himself from state affairs. Dryden.
  • RETROSPECTIVE
    1. Looking backward; contemplating things past; -- opposed to prospective; as, a retrospective view. The sage, with retrospective eye. Pope. 2. Having reference to what is past; affecting things past; retroactive; as, a retrospective
  • OVERLOOK
    1. To look down upon from a place that is over or above; to look over or view from a higher position; to rise above, so as to command a view of; as, to overlook a valley from a hill. "The pile o'erlooked the town." Dryden. with burning eye did
  • REVIEWER
    One who reviews or reëxamines; an inspector; one who examines publications critically, and publishes his opinion upon their merits; a professional critic of books.
  • DISREGARD
    Not to regard; to pay no heed to; to omit to take notice of; to neglect to observe; to slight as unworthy of regard or notice; as, to disregard the admonitions of conscience. Studious of good, man disregarded fame. Blackmore.
  • RECOLLECTION
    1. The act of recollecting, or recalling to the memory; the operation by which objects are recalled to the memory, or ideas revived in the mind; reminiscence; remembrance. 2. The power of recalling ideas to the mind, or the period within which
  • REVISAL
    The act of revising, or reviewing and reëxamining for correction and improvement; revision; as, the revisal of a manuscript; the revisal of a proof sheet; the revisal of a treaty.
  • PERPETUATION
    The act of making perpetual, or of preserving from extinction through an endless existence, or for an indefinite period of time; continuance. Sir T. Browne.
  • DISCARDURE
    Rejection; dismissal. Hayter.
  • DISCARD
    The act of discarding; also, the card or cards discarded.
  • RESURVEY
    To survey again or anew; to review. Shak.
  • RETENTION
    The right of withholding a debt, or of retaining property until a debt due to the person claiming the right be duly paid; a lien. Erskine. Craig. Retention cyst , a cyst produced by obstruction of a duct leading from a secreting organ
  • DISREGARDFUL
    Neglect; negligent; heedless; regardless.
  • DISREGARDER
    One who disregards.
  • UNREMEMBRANCE
    Want of remembrance; forgetfulness. I. Watts.
  • HYPERCRITICISM
    Excessive criticism, or unjust severity or rigor of criticism; zoilism.
  • MISRECOLLECTION
    Erroneous or inaccurate recollection.
  • NEOCRITICISM
    The form of Neo-Kantianism developed by French idealists, following C. Renouvier. It rejects the noumena of Kant, restricting knowledge to phenomena as constituted by a priori categories.
  • ONEIROCRITICISM; ONEIROCRITICS
    The art of interpreting dreams.
  • IRRETENTION
    Want of retaining power; forgetfulness. De Quincey.

 

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