RETROSPECT

v. n.

2 definitions — Webster’s Dictionary (1828)


1.
v.

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

2.
n.

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.