retrogression

American  

[re-truh-gresh-uhn] / ˌrɛ trəˈgrɛʃ ən /

noun

1. the act of retrogressing; movement backward.

2. Biology. degeneration; retrograde metamorphosis; passing from a more complex to a simpler structure.

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Etymology

Origin of retrogression

1640–50; < Latin retrōgress ( us ) ( see retrogress) + -ion

Example Sentences

“He is feared more than he is admired,” said Willy Lam, the author of a book called Chinese Politics in the Era of Xi Jinping: Renaissance, Reform, or Retrogression?

From The Guardian • Sep. 19, 2015

In his latest volume, Retrogression, published in 1917, thirty-two of the fifty-two poems are devoted to the defence of standards of poetic art and of purity of speech.

From The Advance of English Poetry in the Twentieth Century by Phelps, William Lyon

Copies of these statues at Berlin have received the nicknames of Gehemmter Fortschritt, and Bef�rderter R�ckschritt,—Progress checked and Retrogression encouraged.

From Walks in Rome by Hare, Augustus J. C.

Eternal Punishment is merely a form of speech for what is really Eternal Retrogression.

From A Romance of Two Worlds by Corelli, Marie

The clergymen of the old type and the scholars of the Oxford Retrogression said Tĭmōthĕŭs, because they had a sense of English and followed, consciously or unconsciously, the 'alias' rule.

From Society for Pure English Tract 4 The Pronunciation of English Words Derived from the Latin by Sargeaunt, John