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To look backward; hence, to affect or concern what is past.

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  1. v. i. To look backward; hence, to affect or concern what is past.
  2. n. A looking back on things past; view or contemplation of the past.
  3. n. contemplation of things past
  4. v. look back upon (a period of time, sequence of events); remember
  5. To look backward; hence, to affect or concern what is past. It may be useful to retrospect to an early period. A. Hamilton. 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.
  6. To look backward; hence, to affect or concern what is past.It may be useful to retrospect to an early period. A. Hamilton.
  7. n:100 n. contemplation of things past