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- verb Simple past tense and past participle of
retroact .
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Not only were my highly wrought expectations as to the present interview brought to humiliating discomfiture, but the influence of the disillusionment instantly retroacted with the effect of making the entire noble and romantic cult which had led up to this unlucky confrontation seem a mere farrago of extravagant and baseless sentiment.
A Positive Romance 1898 Edward Bellamy 1874
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