retrogress
verb (used without object)
to go backward into an earlier and usually worse condition.
retrogressively
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a word derived from
retrogress.
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a word derived from
retrogressive.
Example Sentences
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The same process can also be tried retrogressively, and so repeated forward and backward.
From Man or Matter by Ernst Lehrs
But the order of succession in imagination is not determined, and the series of successive representations may be taken retrogressively as well as progressively.
From The Critique of Pure Reason by John Miller Dow Meiklejohn
And the non-existence of the last link would retrogressively lead to the non-existence of the whole series.
From The Vedanta-Sutras with the Commentary by Sankaracarya Sacred Books of the East, Volume 1 by George Thibaut
