Emily Dickinson Lexicon
Definition for RET-RO-GRESS'IVE
RET-RO-GRES'SIONRET-RO-GRESS'IVE-LY
RET-RO-GRESS'IVE, a.
Going or moving backward; declining from a more perfect to a less perfect state. Geography is at times retrogressive. – Pinkerton.
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