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

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.

There are species which are arrested, there are some that retrogress.

From Bergson and His Philosophy by Gunn, John Alexander

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