retrospectively
adverb
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adv
Etymology: Etymology tree English retrospective Proto-Indo-European *leyg-der. Proto-Germanic *līkąder. Proto-Germanic *-līkaz Proto-Germanic *-ê Proto-Germanic *-līkê Proto-West Germanic *-līkē Old English -līċe Middle English -ly English -ly English retrospectively From retrospective + -ly.
- In a retrospective manner.
“Near-synonyms: in retrospect, in hindsight”
“The infelicity of this shift of subject only becomes apparent, again retrospectively, in line eight, directly after the reader's encounter with yet another inscrutable Spenserism […]”