Once Roma were level, that incident acquired ominous overtones retrospectively. The act applies retrospectively to contracts entered into before the act was passed. The idea that a decision cannot be judged at the moment but only retrospectively opens a slippery slope of justification.

How do you use retrospectively in a sentence?

(1) She wrote retrospectively about her childhood. (2) Retrospectively, it seems as if they probably were negligent. (3) Retrospectively, I can see where we went wrong. (4) The new rule will be applied retrospectively.

What do you mean by retrospectively?

Doing something retrospectively means being conscious of what happened previously, or applying something new to past events. ... If you speak retrospectively, you talk about past events, and if a museum retrospectively honors an artist, it often displays work stretching back through her entire career.