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Regress   Listen
noun
Regress  n.  
1.
The act of passing back; passage back; return; retrogression. "The progress or regress of man".
2.
The power or liberty of passing back.





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"Regress" Quotes from Famous Books



... of the fortunes of Naturalism and of Supernaturalism is an indication of the progress, or of the regress, of humanity; of a fall from, or an advance towards, the higher life; is a matter of opinion. The point to which I wish to direct attention is that the difference exists and is making itself felt. Men are growing to be seriously alive to the fact that the historical evolution of humanity, which ...
— Collected Essays, Volume V - Science and Christian Tradition: Essays • T. H. Huxley


Words linked to "Regress" :   change by reversal, recidivate, reasoning backward, decline, progress, retrograde, lose, change, worsen, turn, drop off, reasoning, turn back, return, reversion, logical thinking, lapse, retroversion, go back, relapse, retrovert, abstract thought, retrogression, retrogress, resile, regression, recede


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