Definition of Retrogressively

1. adv. In a retrogressive manner.

Definition of Retrogressively

1. Adverb. In a retrogressive manner. ¹

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Definition of Retrogressively

1. [adv]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Retrogressively

retrograded
retrogradely
retrogrades
retrograding
retrogradingly
retrography
retrogreen
retrogreening
retrogress
retrogressed
retrogresses
retrogressing
retrogression
retrogressions
retrogressive
retrogressively
retrohippocampal
retrohyoid bursa
retroinguinal space
retroinhibition
retroiridian
retrojection
retrojector
retrojet
retrolental
retrolental fibroplasia
retrolenticular
retrolenticular limb of internal capsule
retrolenticular part of internal capsule

Literary usage of Retrogressively

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Laws of Heredity by George Archdall O'Brien Reid (1910)
"... the tendency to vary retrogressively is so much stronger than the tendency to vary progressively that retrogression is checked only by selection. ..."

2. Proofs and Illustrations of the Attributes of God: From the Facts and Laws by John Macculloch (1843)
"The analogy which occurs in the gradual improvement and multiplication, or, reversely, in the as gradual simplification and diminution, retrogressively, ..."

3. A Dictionary of Science: Comprising Astronomy, Chemistry, Dynamics by George Farrer Rodwell (1871)
"... retrogressively, and at such a rate that a complete revolution of the nodes of the equator-plane would be effected within a moderate number of years. ..."

4. The Structure of Man: An Index to His Past History by Robert Wiedersheim, George Bond Howes (1895)
"B. Retrogressively modified, the Organs having become wholly or in part functionless, some appearing in the Embryo alone, others present during Life ..."

5. Critique of Pure Reason by Immanuel Kant (1901)
"But the order of succession in imagination is not determined, and the series of successive representations may be taken retrogressively as well as ..."

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