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Regress   Listen
verb
Regress  v. i.  (past & past part. regressed; pres. part. regressing)  To go back; to return to a former place or state.






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








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"Regress" Quotes from Famous Books



... image to which he is to conform. Day after day he can grow in grace. Day after day the beautiful graces of the Spirit can become more beautiful and the exterior life be more perceptibly stamped with the holy image of God. There must be progress, or there will be regress. When a ball that has been thrown upward ceases to ascend, it begins to descend. When the fulness of the type is reached, then begins the retrogression. This is none the less true of spiritual things. The reason why there need be ...
— How to Live a Holy Life • C. E. Orr



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