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
There are species which are arrested, there are some that retrogress.
From Bergson and His Philosophy by John Alexander Gunn
But it must be a slow, and occasionally an interrupted progress, after a sad retrogress of nearly twelve years.'
From The Opium Habit by Horace B. Day
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 Henry Rider Haggard
