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Retrogressive   Listen
adjective
Retrogressive  adj.  
1.
Tending to retrograde; going or moving backward; declining from a better to a worse state.
2.
(Biol.) Passing from a higher to a lower condition; declining from a more perfect state of organization; regressive.






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"Retrogressive" Quotes from Famous Books



... worry seriously about what would happen after death, inclining to think that nothing would happen. He resembled one of his own gilt-edged securities, and to knock the gilt off by seeing anything he could avoid seeing would be, he felt instinctively, perverse and retrogressive. Those two crumpled rose-leaves, Fleur's caprice and Monsieur Profond's snout, would level away if he lay ...
— Forsyte Saga • John Galsworthy

... earlier formations, as well as the later, which, according to good authority, is not the case. But that this parasite has a special affinity for consumptive tissue there is no question, and that it thrives therein with great rapidity, hastening retrogressive changes, is also to be granted. But, as yet, this is all we ...
— Scientific American Supplement, No. 794, March 21, 1891 • Various

... remarkable of its developments. In truth the vague, fluid, purely subjective character of deism disqualifies it from forming the doctrinal basis of any great objective and visible church, for it is at bottom the sublimation of individualism. But in itself it was a far less retrogressive, as well as a far less powerful, movement. It kept fewer of those dogmas which gradual change of intellectual climate had reduced to the condition of rank superstitions. It preserved some of its own, which a still further extension of the same ...
— Rousseau - Volumes I. and II. • John Morley

... the middle of the older man's body, and by the very superiority of his position forced his antagonist to give ground. That the struggle would have then continued body to body there can be no doubt, had it not been for the fact that the Factor's retrogressive movement brought his knees sharply against the edge of a chair standing near the side of the table. Albret lost his balance, wavered, and finally sat down violently. Ned Trent promptly pinned him by the shoulder into powerless immobility. Me-en-gan had possessed himself of the ...
— Conjuror's House - A Romance of the Free Forest • Stewart Edward White



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