retrogression

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“He is feared more than he is admired,” said Willy Lam, the author of a book called Chinese Politics in the Era of Xi Jinping: Renaissance, Reform, or Retrogression?

From The Guardian • Sep. 19, 2015

In his latest volume, Retrogression, published in 1917, thirty-two of the fifty-two poems are devoted to the defence of standards of poetic art and of purity of speech.

From The Advance of English Poetry in the Twentieth Century by Phelps, William Lyon

The clergymen of the old type and the scholars of the Oxford Retrogression said Tĭmōthĕŭs, because they had a sense of English and followed, consciously or unconsciously, the 'alias' rule.

From Society for Pure English Tract 4 The Pronunciation of English Words Derived from the Latin by Sargeaunt, John

Retrogression had left him with an adult body and sharper receptiveness.

From Forget Me Nearly by Wallace, F. L. (Floyd L.)

Eternal Punishment is merely a form of speech for what is really Eternal Retrogression.

From A Romance of Two Worlds by Corelli, Marie