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, as a matter of fact, there are species which are arrested; there are some that retrogress.

From Creative Evolution by Mitchell, Arthur

We don't stand still or retrogress; we keep going on and up.

From The Drums of Jeopardy by MacGrath, Harold

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