Retrogression is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for RETROGRESSION in dictionary:

NOUN:
• the act of retrogressing
• the process of returning to an earlier state, typically a worse one
• The act of retrograding, or going backward; retrogradation.
• Backward development; a passing from a higher to a lower state of organization or structure, as when an animal, approaching maturity, becomes less highly organized than would be expected from its earlier stages or known relationship. Called also retrograde development, and regressive metamorphism.
• passing from a more complex to a simpler biological form
• returning to a former state
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• regression

Words related to RETROGRESSION

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Words that contain RETROGRESSION

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How to use RETROGRESSION in a sentence

• The cosmic process brings about retrogression, as well as progression, where the conditions favor it.
• I fancied that I alone had suffered a retrogression.
• The world never saw a more rapid retrogression in human rights, or a greater prostration of liberties.
• In fact, if the machine-building trade were in retrogression, with only a few new men being taken in there would be little or no excuse for making machine tools of new design.
• But this, as would appear from the history of the science, is a mere retrogression towards the rudeness of its earlier stages.
• Few observers can see beyond this temporary retrogression into the future for which it is a preparation.
• The result was a retrogression from the point reached by his immediate predecessors to the vicious system followed by the pseudo-Gothic architects in Italy.
• Human history is so rich and complicated that you can make out a case for any course of improvement or retrogression.
• The organization of labor is one of the chief acknowledged factors in the retrogression of British trade.
• I have, in the preceding pages, shown the retrogression of some parts of the West Indies, since the passing of the Emancipation and Sugar-Duty Acts.
• Whether he realised this retrogression himself it is difficult to say.
• I also questioned them about the museum of old machines, and the cause of the apparent retrogression in all arts, sciences, and inventions.
• This is the cause of its retrogression into the appetites and passions of the animal kingdom.
• A tree can live solitary and alone, but this is impossible for man without retrogression.
• This retrogression comes from the fact that the principles of divine civilization are completely abandoned, and the teachings of the prophets are forgotten.
• The compositions of this period constitute an artistic retrogression rather than an advance.
• They cause progress and they also cause retrogression.
• But constant watchfulness is needed in order to prevent retrogression in this matter.
• As in Egypt, so too in Babylonia, the sculpture of later times shows retrogression rather than advance.
• Dramatically the piece is somewhat of a retrogression, but it is interesting from the characters introduced in pastoral guise.
• It interests scholars to trace the evolutions of religious faiths, but it might be not less suggestive to study the retrogression of religion into superstition.
• The conquest of Britain by the Anglo-Saxons, begun in 449, seemed at first to promise only retrogression and the ruin of an existing civilization.
• Culture is the accumulation of the results of activity, and culture could go on improving for a certain time even if there were a retrogression in intelligence.
• But retrogression was never yet the way of progress.
• I can see the artistic retrogression of those who are using the wire E, for when materially things are made easier, spiritually there is a loss.
• Here, as on the west coast, disintegration and retrogression followed, for as the American traffic lessened, the Arabian traffic increased.
• The church, which had hitherto been a teacher and guide, became the champion of barbarism and the genius of retrogression.

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