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Progressive

adjective

1.

Favoring or promoting progress.

2.

Favoring or promoting reform (often by government action). Synonyms: reform-minded, reformist.

3.

(of taxes) adjusted so that the rate increases as the amount of income increases.

4.

Gradually advancing in extent.

5.

(of a card game or a dance) involving a series of sections for which the participants successively change place or relative position. "Progressive tournaments"

6.

Advancing in severity.

noun

1.

A tense of verbs used in describing action that is on-going. Synonyms: continuous tense, imperfect, imperfect tense, progressive tense.

2.

A person who favors a political philosophy of progress and reform and the protection of civil liberties. Synonyms: liberal, liberalist.

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"Progressive" Quotes from Famous Books

... job in a progressive town containing so many folks who could do it creditably? Oh, that is simple enough! She needs it. On the platform of the Reggio station (long before the earthquake) I once counted five station-masters and ...

— Old Calabria • Norman Douglas

... silk-grass, and laying out provincial gardens. They moreover allowed a gold medal in honour of him who should compose the best treatise on the arts of peace, containing an historical account of the progressive improvements of agriculture, manufactures, and commerce in the kingdom of England, with the effects of those improvements on the morals and manners of the people, and pointing out the most proper means for their future advancement. ...

— The History of England in Three Volumes, Vol.II. - From William and Mary to George II. • Tobias Smollett

... the opposition of Austria-Hungary. [Footnote: See Life of Lord Goschen, vol. i, p. 215. These proposals were revived in 1912, and, which is remarkable, by Count Berchtold, the Foreign Minister of Austria-Hungary, in a despatch in favour of 'progressive decentralization.' See an article in the Edinburgh Review, April, 1913: 'Austria and Italy have been rivals for influence in Albania, as Austria and Russia were rivals in Macedonia. It was because of this rivalry that the Treaty of Berlin, so far as it applied to the European provinces of Turkey, ...

— The Life of the Rt. Hon. Sir Charles W. Dilke, Vol. 2 • Stephen Gwynn

... the latest thing must necessarily be the best. They forget that the same process which has relieved man of his tail has deprived the snake of his legs and the kiwi of his wings. They forget that art has never been and cannot be continuously progressive; that it is only the sciences connected with art that are capable of progress; and that the "Henriade" is not a greater poem than the "Divine Comedy" because Voltaire has learned the falsity of the Ptolemaic ...

— Artist and Public - And Other Essays On Art Subjects • Kenyon Cox

... name, Constitutional Democrats. Its official name is "Party of the People's Freedom." Under the Tsar composed of Liberals from the propertied classes, the Cadets were the great party of political reform, roughly corresponding to the Progressive Party in America. When the Revolution broke out in March, 1917, the Cadets formed the first Provisional Government. The Cadet Ministry was overthrown in April because it declared itself in favour of Allied imperialistic aims, including ...

— Ten Days That Shook the World • John Reed

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