retroactive

Despite his red-hot debate showings—and a retroactive win in Iowa—Senator Sweatervest was basically a nonfactor in Florida.

On the other hand, the retroactive effects of true charity are most beneficial.

This heroine is very nobly and vividly imaged, and we feel the poet to be full of a retroactive as well as a present patriotism.

A retroactive act of that State had declared them slaves again, and they had fled to Philadelphia where they were arrested.

But a person who cannot take this oath, retroactive though it be, must have been a traitor.

That order could have no retroactive effect, to make his orders to have been valid in the past.