retrogress

Example Sentences

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

From Time Magazine Archive

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

Would I could retrogress over the devious and enchanting itinerary.

From Shandygaff by Morley, Christopher

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

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.