retrogress

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Sir: Premarital Murdock flagrantly contradicts his own anthropology and science when he advocates that we should retrogress thousands of years into the primitive "gland-motivated" society.

From Time Magazine Archive

Not to struggle is to retrogress, to collapse, to go revisionist.

From Time Magazine Archive

But it must be a slow, and occasionally an interrupted progress, after a sad retrogress of nearly twelve years.'

From The Opium Habit by Day, Horace B.

It may after a time remain stationary, or, in rare instances, retrogress; as a rule, however, it is progressive.

From Essentials of Diseases of the Skin Including the Syphilodermata Arranged in the Form of Questions and Answers Prepared Especially for Students of Medicine by Stelwagon, Henry Weightman

That certain animals degenerate or retrogress in their development is susceptible of ready and familiar illustration.

From Degeneracy Its Causes, Signs and Results by Talbot, Eugene S.