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Definition of Retrograded
1. retrograde [v] - See also: retrograde
Lexicographical Neighbors of Retrograded
Literary usage of Retrograded
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Principles of Political Economy Applied to the Condition, the Resources by Francis Bowen (1859)
"... have since ceased to advance, and even retrograded, in riches and population,
many of the citizens joining the great tide of migration to the Western ..."
2. Handbook of Painting: German, Fleming, and Dutch Schools by Sir Joseph Archer Crowe, Gustav Friedrich Waagen, Franz Kugler (1898)
"Nor when peace was restored was the condition of things more favourable ; the
land was too much exhausted and the people had too far retrograded to permit ..."
3. History of the Development of Constitutional and Civil Liberty: Being a by Martin Ferdinand Morris (1898)
"It is no answer, of course, to this statement that, during the same three centuries,
the cause of Civil Liberty also retrograded and absolutism became more ..."
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