regredience

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/ɹɪˈɡɹiːdi.əns/

noun

A going back; a retrogression.

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Meanings

nounregredience (uncountable)
  1. uncountableA going back; a retrogression.

    No man comes late unto that place from vvhence / Never man yet had a regredience.

    1648, Robert Herrick, “Never Too Late To Dye”, in Hesperides: Or, The Works both Humane & Divine […], London: […] John Williams, and Francis Eglesfield, and are to be sold by Tho[mas] Hunt, […], →OCLC, page 268
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Chicago

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