Retrospect is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for RETROSPECT in dictionary:

VERB:
• to engage in retrospection
• To look backward; hence, to affect or concern what is past.
• look back upon (a period of time, sequence of events); remember
NOUN:
• a survey or review of a past course of events or period of time
• A looking back on things past; view or contemplation of the past.
• contemplation of things past
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• reference to or regard of a precedent or authority

Words related to RETROSPECT

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Words that contain RETROSPECT

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How to use RETROSPECT in a sentence

• No retrospect of the happiness of former days, compared with existing misery, disturbed his slumber, nor horrid dreams occasioned him to wake in agony at the dawn of day.
• The years before manhood were years of prospect, and in most cases they offered but little to make them worth the retrospect.
• But to me, my fellow-citizens, looking forward to the far-distant future with ardent prayers and confiding hopes, this retrospect presents a ground for still deeper delight.
• Because we realize completely only in retrospect, it may well be that the present exists chiefly for the sake of the future.
• And yet Helen, had she been asked, would have said that he must often dwell on them in loving retrospect.
• She told him the history of her life, and wept bitterly over the retrospect of her erroneous course.
• Therefore, in retrospect, exiles, prisoners, martyrs, who have believed in God seem fortunate.
• What now in retrospect most impresses me is the heroism I displayed, the stark fortitude, the grandeur of will power, the triumph for character.
• But perhaps that was only in retrospect, in view of what he learned later.
• It seemed to him in the retrospect that he had raved like a guilty man.
• Let us take a hasty retrospect of the poetical literature of this Country for the greater part of the last two centuries, and see if the facts support these inferences.
• As I do not mean to bring down this retrospect to our own times, it may with propriety be closed at the era of this distinguished event.
• It is all clear enough now in retrospect though I did not understand it at the time.
• I will, therefore, take a brief retrospect of the ground.
• Look at it in retrospect, as it is pictured by many writers of every school of thought, and a dark scene of melancholy failure presents itself.
• My principal happiness is now in the retrospect of life.
• We have limited our retrospect mainly to the Tudor period.
• The first section gives a retrospect of the chief finds made in 1914, so far as they are known to me.
• Hilliard was sweeter in retrospect than it had been in reality.
• It inevitably leads to a dull and mechanical repetition instead of cultivating an interesting comparison of new and old and a thoughtful retrospect.
• In retrospect, it is apparent that the phenomenon we today know as the twin processes of expansion and consolidation itself had its origin in those marvellous years.
• But in the retrospect of his life as a whole he had no doubt as to the supreme bent of his genius.
• But the walks which I most enjoy, in retrospect at any rate, are those taken at night.
• Some retrospect of the century which has now elapsed is among the duties of the occasion.
• Beyond Cobham came a delightful incident, delightful, that is, in its beginning if a trifle indeterminate in the retrospect.
• The things that seemed important when they were present seem pitifully insignificant in the retrospect.
• The unpleasant quality of the talk was far more manifest in the retrospect than it had been at the time.
• At the close of 1857 he indulged in a brief retrospect, and an emphatic statement of his determination for the future.
• Veiled in hazy retrospect, attempting to recall it is like inviting the return of childish dreams when one has reached the years of maturity.
• So would it have been, perhaps, if she could have lived only in the present, or in joyful retrospect.
• So we inherit that sweet purity For which we struggled, failed, and agonized With widening retrospect that bred despair.
• Long and Lord Selborne have used it, that is, while tacitly approving in retrospect of the Home Rule of 1906, to argue from Union to Union.
• In such a retrospect centuries crumble and disappear into the gulf of Time as pebbles into the Canon of the Colorado.

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