Definition of "retroaction" []

• An action, as of a law, that influences or applies to a prior time. (noun)
• An opposing or reciprocal action; a reaction. (noun)

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• "It grants her a "novel education," in all the complexity, retroaction, and necessary wandering that"
• "For example, statistics had not quite demonstrated to Germany that the physique of her people and the rate of increase of their families were declining while the expenditures for superpreparedness for war was demanding either retroaction in that regard or else an expenditure from the principal of their property."
• "The more conscious our craving for retroaction from sympathisers, the more there must also be developed in us a conscious endeavor to cause the feeling to be appropriated by as many as possible and as completely as possible."