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

Would I could retrogress over the devious and enchanting itinerary.

From Shandygaff by Morley, Christopher

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.

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 Stelwagon, Henry Weightman