retrogress

Example Sentences

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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 Reminiscences of Samuel Taylor Coleridge and Robert Southey by Cottle, Joseph

What had caused the man to retrogress Luis and Luise Obispo?

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

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.