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Retroactive

adjective

Descriptive of any event or stimulus or process that has an effect on the effects of events or stimuli or process that occurred previously.

Affecting things past. Synonyms: ex post facto, retro. "An ex-post-facto law" , "Retro pay"

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"Retroactive" Quotes from Famous Books

... repeat its expressional movements. And just as all the widened "somatic resonances" contribute to the primary feeling-tone increased strength and increased definiteness, so must the emotional state of an individual be enhanced by retroactive stimulation from the expressions by which the state has, so to say, been continued in others. By the reciprocal action of primary movements and borrowed movements, which mutually imitate each other, the social expression operates in the same way as the individual ...

— Introduction to the Science of Sociology • Robert E. Park

... Members from $3,000 to $5,000 a year, and justified this increase by the inflated prices of everything measured by a depreciated currency. There would have been but little complaint of this by the people had not the law been made retroactive. It was made to take effect at the beginning of that Congress, though when the law was passed Congress was nearly ended. This "back pay," amounting to over $3,000, was very unpopular, and led to the defeat of many Members ...

— Recollections of Forty Years in the House, Senate and Cabinet - An Autobiography. • John Sherman

... calculated for a rich and commercial people, and better adapted to the republic of St. Marino than to that of France, was introduced under pretext of favouring the system of equality; and its transition from absurdity to injustice, by giving it a retroactive effect, was promoted to accommodate the "virtuous" Herault de Sechelles, who acquired a considerable addition of fortune by it. The Convention are daily beset with petitions from all parts on this subject; ...

— A Residence in France During the Years 1792, 1793, 1794 and 1795, • An English Lady

... annexation was completed in 1910 all the hindrances which had hitherto stood in the way of the complete execution of Japanese methods were apparently swept on one side. The Governor-General had absolute power to pass what ordinances he pleased, and even to make those ordinances retroactive. Extra-territoriality was abolished, and foreign subjects in Korea were placed entirely ...

— Korea's Fight for Freedom • F.A. McKenzie

... been born of an aristocratic family. Of all the vain wishes, the retroactive pluperfect are the vainest, and an antenatal wish is sublimely ridiculous. But Kedzie wished it. This was one of the wishes she did ...

— We Can't Have Everything • Rupert Hughes

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