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Regress

noun

The reasoning involved when you assume the conclusion is true and reason backward to the evidence. Synonym: reasoning backward.

Returning to a former state. Synonyms: regression, retrogression, retroversion, reversion.

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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

Words linked to "Regress" : logical thinking, reasoning backward, fall back, recuperate, reverse, drop off, lose, progress, worsen, go back, reversal, recover, reasoning, change by reversal, decline, abstract thought, resile, turn, recede, change, fall behind