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Regress   /rˈigrɛs/  /rɪgrˈɛs/   Listen
Regress

noun
1.
The reasoning involved when you assume the conclusion is true and reason backward to the evidence.  Synonym: reasoning backward.
2.
Returning to a former state.  Synonyms: regression, retrogression, retroversion, reversion.
verb
(past & past part. regressed; pres. part. regressing)
1.
Go back to a statistical means.
2.
Go back to a previous state.  Synonyms: retrovert, return, revert, turn back.
3.
Get worse or fall back to a previous condition.  Synonyms: retrograde, retrogress.
4.
Go back to bad behavior.  Synonyms: fall back, lapse, recidivate, relapse, retrogress.



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"Regress" Quotes from Famous Books



... be allow'd to suppose the Devil really has a full Intercourse in, and through, and about this Globe, with Egress and Regress, for the carrying on his special Affairs, when, how, and where, to his Majesty, in his great Wisdom, it shall seem meet; that sometimes he appears and becomes visible, and that, like a Mastiff without his Clog, he does not always carry his Cloven-Foot ...
— The History of the Devil - As Well Ancient as Modern: In Two Parts • Daniel Defoe
... fortunes of Naturalism and of Supernaturalism is an indication of the progress, or of the regress, of humanity; of a fall from, or an advance towards, the higher life; is a matter of opinion. The point to which I wish to direct attention is that the difference exists and is making itself felt. Men are growing to be seriously alive to the fact ...
— Lectures and Essays • Thomas Henry Huxley


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