Definition of Retrodden

1. retread [v] - See also: retread

Lexicographical Neighbors of Retrodden

retrocollic
retrocollic spasm
retrocollis
retrocomputing
retroconduction
retrocopies
retrocopulation
retrocopy
retrocursive
retrocuspid papilla
retrocyclin
retrocyclins
retrocycloaddition
retrocycloadditions
retrod
retrodden (current term)
retrodeviation
retrodict
retrodicted
retrodicting
retrodiction
retrodictions
retrodictive
retrodicts
retrodiene
retrodismutation
retrodisplace
retrodisplacement
retroduction
retroduodenal artery

Literary usage of Retrodden

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Monthly Review by Ralph Griffiths (1824)
"Some such series of steps as removed the traces of feudal servitude in "the old world might be retrodden in the new, with a similar •useful result. ..."

2. The Works of Jeremy Bentham by Jeremy Bentham, John Bowring (1843)
"At this next, and other succeeding stages, the same ground will be retrodden: and in it, as relative capacity advances, information will be afforded, ..."

3. The Fortnightly Review (1875)
"... I crave not any comfort of the day That is not, nor on time's retrodden track Would turn to meet the white-robed hours or black That long since left me ..."

4. Macmillan's Magazine by David Masson, George Grove, John Morley, Mowbray Morris (1861)
"The event seems to mark the century as one in which the old paths would be retrodden, and be found to abound in riches unseen to the ages which had passed ..."

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