Definition of "retrovert" []

• To turn back. (verb)

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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."
• "As I retrovert a little to the world events of the past few years there are two things that stand out, to my mind."