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Progressive   /prəgrˈɛsɪv/   Listen
Progressive

adjective
1.
Favoring or promoting progress.
2.
Favoring or promoting reform (often by government action).  Synonyms: reform-minded, reformist.
3.
(of taxes) adjusted so that the rate increases as the amount of income increases.
4.
Gradually advancing in extent.
5.
(of a card game or a dance) involving a series of sections for which the participants successively change place or relative position.  "Progressive tournaments"
6.
Advancing in severity.
noun
1.
A tense of verbs used in describing action that is on-going.  Synonyms: continuous tense, imperfect, imperfect tense, progressive tense.
2.
A person who favors a political philosophy of progress and reform and the protection of civil liberties.  Synonyms: liberal, liberalist.



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"Progressive" Quotes from Famous Books



... true," he confessed, "I have been called to pass through some strange experiences. But all were necessary steps; and I have now reached a stand-point from which I can look back and see in its indisputable place every grade of the progressive ascent. There has been only apparent failure. Our attempted Association was a necessary foreshadowing of what remains to be unfolded; a prophetic symbol. We have all been ...
— The Atlantic Monthly, Vol. I, No. 1, Nov. 1857 • Various
... many that there can be anything better than butter for cooking, or of greater utility than lard, and the advent of Crisco has been a shock to the older generation, born in an age less progressive than our own, and prone to contend that the old fashioned things ...
— The Story of Crisco • Marion Harris Neil
... Percy Ambler, man of fashion and dilettante poet; and with him little Murray Symington, who wrote the literary chat for "Knickerbocker's Weekly", and was therefore a power to be propitiated. There came Blanchard, the young and progressive publisher of the "Beau Monde", a weekly whose circulation rivalled that of "Macintyre's". There came also young Macklin, Mrs. Patton's nephew, with his monocle and his killing drawl. Macklin came by these honestly, having been brought up in England; but Thyrsis ...
— Love's Pilgrimage • Upton Sinclair
... ago I expressed to Wordsworth a wish that his poems were printed in the order of their composition, assigning as reasons for the wish the great interest which would attach to observing the progressive development of the poet's thought, and the interpretative value of the light mutually reflected by poems of the same period. I remember being surprised by the feeling akin to indignation which he manifested at the suggestion. ...
— The Prose Works of William Wordsworth • William Wordsworth
... active and progressive as the nineteenth century has been, in politics, science and literature, it would have been surprising if the church had remained inert, wrapped like a mummy in the cerements of the past. At the beginning of the century, ...
— Notable Events of the Nineteenth Century - Great Deeds of Men and Nations and the Progress of the World • Various


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