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Definition of Retrogresses
1. retrogress [v] - See also: retrogress
Lexicographical Neighbors of Retrogresses
Literary usage of Retrogresses
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease by American Neurological Association, Philadelphia Neurological Society, Chicago Neurological Society, New York Neurological Association, Boston Society of Psychiatry and Neurology (1914)
"... of an unrequited unconscious homosexuality, and that in such cases the libido
retrogresses to the homosexual plane. Such a mechanism occurs when the ..."
2. The Journal of Experimental Medicine by Rockefeller University, Rockefeller Institute, Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research (1919)
"Some individuals are primarily insusceptible, and in some the growth develops
slowly, and eventually retrogresses. The latter fail ordinarily to develop a ..."
3. Journal of the American Veterinary Medical Association by American Veterinary Medical Association. (1916)
"At times considerably extensive local infiltration may follow the injection which,
however, retrogresses within a short time and the general condition of ..."
4. The Gentleman's Magazine (1881)
"... progresses towards a higher type, or, last of all, it backslides and retrogresses.
As the first condition, that of stability, is, as already noted, ..."
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