retrojection

Some modern historians have argued that this episode has been invented or is a retrojection of later events.

Matters theological, of course, abound in examples of retrojection and retronegation.

In searching for new words for this special negative example of retrojection, I can think of a couple: retrotraction, and retronegation.

Likewise does not believe the surrender of 343 to be a retrojection, not finding many similarities between the events of 343 and 211.

Beloch, believing that the Romans would not have recorded a Latin attack on Satricum, considered the burning in 377 a retrojection of the events of 346.

The language-hop from the spoken Aramaic of Jesus and the first disciples to the Koine Greek of the evangelists has led to centuries of retrojection and retronegation!

Steampunk, a term applying both to the retrojection of futuristic technology into an alternative Victorian age, and the application of neo-Victorian styles to modern technology, is a highly successful version of this second trend.

Maybe it is more precise to think in terms of Prof. Albert Schorsch's "retroject, verb; retrojection, noun," or the French term suggested by a correspondent from England, but whose post I have regretfully misplaced.

Now here's another puzzle: to find a word for that special case of retrojection where a scholar claims that because a thinker from the past never used the modern word, the ancient person never held beliefs consistent with the modern concept.