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retroject (reh-troh-DJEKT) - v., to throw backwards; to project into the past, to insert anachronistically into a historical reconstruction.
Coined around 1850 on the model of project, with retro-, back/behind/opposite, substituting for pro-, forward/front/before. I am interested in the divergent meanings, and wonder whether it was independently coined more than once.
---L.
Coined around 1850 on the model of project, with retro-, back/behind/opposite, substituting for pro-, forward/front/before. I am interested in the divergent meanings, and wonder whether it was independently coined more than once.
---L.
