retroversion
noun
a looking or turning back.
retroverted
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a word derived from
retroversion.
Example Sentences
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He ate the oats, but with retroverted eye watched her.
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 17, No. 99, January, 1866 by Various
The state of happiness so exalted that it became almost holiness, in which he had been that very night, flung him to lower depths when it was retroverted.
From Pembroke A Novel by Mary Eleanor Wilkins Freeman
As he washed he saw with half a retroverted eye the round table spread with china and glass and silver.
From The Literary Sense by E. (Edith) Nesbit
Another leaped, and landed with his feet on the other bank, his haunches in the water, and his rider curled round his neck, and glaring out between his retroverted ears.
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 16, No. 98, December, 1865 by Various
Thus absorbed was I in thought When there came to me the echo Of a sigh half heard, for half To its owner retroverted.
From The Wonder-Working Magician by Denis Florence MacCarthy
