Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun One who returns to his original creed.
- noun That which undergoes retroversion, as a part or organ of the body.
- To turn back.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- transitive verb To turn back.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb To
turn back .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- verb go back to a previous state
Etymologies
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
retro- + Latin vertere, versum, to turn. Compare retrorse.
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Examples
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Peeping through the lowered venetians of yesteryear (recollection as a species of voyeurism is very Ishiguro), the retrovert is privy to a series of partial visions that eventually reveal a life guided by calamitous misapprehension on his part.
New Fiction Joseph O'Neil 2005
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Peeping through the lowered venetians of yesteryear (recollection as a species of voyeurism is very Ishiguro), the retrovert is privy to a series of partial visions that eventually reveal a life guided by calamitous misapprehension on his part.
New Fiction Joseph O'Neil 2005
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As I retrovert a little to the world events of the past few years there are two things that stand out, to my mind.
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