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
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
The epidermoid papillæ are of a nature similar to those retroverted prominences so remarkable on the tongue of the cat; as well as in the lion, and some other animals.
From North American Medical and Surgical Journal, Vol. 2, No. 3, July, 1826 by Franklin Bache
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
