retrovert

English

Etymology

From retro- + Latin vertere, versum (“to turn”). Compare retrorse.

Verb

retrovert (third-person singular simple present retroverts, present participle retroverting, simple past and past participle retroverted)

1. To turn back.

Noun

retrovert (plural retroverts)

1. One who returns to their original creed.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “retrovert”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)