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
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 Henry Weightman Stelwagon
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 Joseph Cottle
Would I could retrogress over the devious and enchanting itinerary.
From Shandygaff by Christopher Morley
