retrogression
Noun
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Noun
retrogression
- A deterioration or decline to a previous state.
- 1849, Hogg's Weekly Instructor (page 388)
- History and experience, the enshriners of the past, and investigation, the discoverer of the present and preparer for the future, will prevent retrogression.
- 1849, Hogg's Weekly Instructor (page 388)
- (biology) A return to a less complex condition.
- French: rétrogression
- German: Rückschritt
- Russian: регре́сс
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