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Definition of Retroceding
1. retrocede [v] - See also: retrocede
Lexicographical Neighbors of Retroceding
Literary usage of Retroceding
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Medical Topography of Upper Canada by John Douglas (1819)
"... fatigues of his long retroceding and counter marches. IV. We have now given
a short view of the general aspect of the country, and of the principal ..."
2. The London Medical Gazette (1840)
"... in spite of the progressive wealth of England, large classes are untouched by
the golden shower, and may be retroceding in the general advancement ? ..."
3. A History of the Sandwich Islands by Sheldon Dibble (1909)
"Now, I ask, would the unaided efforts of this one man save the village from
retroceding into ignorance and degradation? And yet this one clergyman has an ..."
4. History of the Sandwich islands by Sheldon Dibble (1843)
"Now, I ask, would the unaided efforts of this one man save the village from
retroceding into ignorance and degradation ? And yet this one clergyman has an ..."
5. The British and Foreign Medical Review: Or Quarterly Journal of Practical (1844)
"Henle gives a different view of the succession in the stages of development, and
retroceding metamorphosis of the organic elements under consideration. ..."
6. The Cambridge Modern History by John Emerich Edward Dalberg Acton Acton, Adolphus William Ward, George Walter Prothero, Ernest Alfred Benians (1903)
"This time the demand was obeyed ; and on October 1, 1800, a treaty retroceding
Louisiana to France was secretly signed at San Ildefonso. ..."
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