progressive assimilation

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assimilation in which a preceding sound has an effect on a following one, as in shortening captain to cap'm rather than cap'n.

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The rainy weather could not ________ my elated spirits on my graduation day.

First recorded in 1910–15

Weiss is likely to get confirmed even as Warren and a handful of other progressive Democrats vote no.
Sen. Warren’s Main Street Crusade to Pressure Clinton|Eleanor Clift|January 8, 2015|DAILY BEAST
But now his politics were offending the progressive sensibilities of the American film industry.
How James Woods Became Obama’s Biggest Twitter Troll|Asawin Suebsaeng|December 31, 2014|DAILY BEAST
They are afflicted with “progressive spiritual emptiness,” he said, which no amount of academic honors and degrees can fill.
Pope Francis Denounces the Vatican Elite’s 'Spiritual Alzheimer’s'|Barbie Latza Nadeau|December 23, 2014|DAILY BEAST
Some imagine Senator Elizabeth Warren as the charismatic leader of a progressive version of the “tea party.”
Time to Bring Back the Truman Democrats|Joel Kotkin|December 21, 2014|DAILY BEAST

Throughout the progressive movement, this sentiment is echoed almost everywhere.
Why the Left Loves Warren, But Won’t Swoon for Sanders|David Freedlander|December 19, 2014|DAILY BEAST
The act, however, is a progressive piece of legislation and creates new conditions as the result of its own operation.
Readings in Money and Banking|Chester Arthur Phillips
A method of Vacuity pure and simple—the exact opposite of Mental Assimilation.
Assimilative Memory|Marcus Dwight Larrowe (AKA Prof. A. Loisette)
At first geologists were disposed to attribute all the phenomena of mountain-folding to the progressive cooling of the earth.
Outlines of the Earth's History|Nathaniel Southgate Shaler
Science and revelation are therefore progressive, though in somewhat different ways.
Gospel Philosophy|J. H. Ward
In this section we can see how the progressive melting gradually brings the rocky débris into plain view.
Outlines of the Earth's History|Nathaniel Southgate Shaler