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

They begin in Piccadilly, and progress, or rather retrogress, through Leicester Square on to Tottenham Court Road and Oxford Street, and thence to the Euston Road, ending their sad careers in Bishopsgate and Whitechapel.

From Regeneration by Haggard, Henry Rider

The pituitary, too, begins to retrogress after the period of maturity.

From The Glands Regulating Personality by Berman, Louis, M.D.

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.