retrograde
adjective
moving backward; having a backward motion or direction; retiring or retreating.
was retrograding
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past progressiveof retrograde.past progressive
Used to describe an ongoing action or continuous state that was happening at a specific time in the past.
Example Sentences
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Like every one else who does not advance, he was retrograding.
From No Moss The Career of a Rolling Stone by Harry Castlemon
The Puritans, on the other hand, were more convinced that the Anglican church was retrograding towards Catholicism, and more determined to destroy episcopacy if they should ever be able to do so.
From American Nation: a history — Volume 1: European Background of American History, 1300-1600 by Edward Potts Cheyney
The worst that he could bring about would be to give the impression to the world that the church was retrograding instead of progressing.
From The Puritans by Arlo Bates
