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n. - Memory for experiences that are past; Reference to things past.

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  • Some psychologists tried to contrast retrospection and introspection
  • Thus long, I have cradled my heart in retrospection of past happiness, when hope was.
  • O blissful state of innocence, purity, and delight, why must it fleet so fast? why scarcely but by retrospection is its happiness known?
  • Mercedes Higgins sighed cheerfully and for the time was lost in retrospection.
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