Definition of Regressively

1. adv. In a regressive manner.

Definition of Regressively

1. Adverb. in a regressive manner ¹

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Definition of Regressively

1. [adv]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Regressively

regression analysis
regression coefficient
regression curve
regression equation
regression line
regression of the mean
regression of y on x
regression to the mean
regression toward the mean
regression tree
regressional
regressions
regressive
regressive-reconstructive approach
regressive staining
regressively (current term)
regressiveness
regressivities
regressivity
regressor
regressors
regret
regretable
regretful
regretfully
regretfulness
regretfulnesses
regreting
regretless
regrets

Literary usage of Regressively

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

1. Immanuel Kant's Critique of Pure Reason by Immanuel Kant (1881)
"Secondly, it is in reality the unconditioned alone which reason is looking for in the synthesis of conditions, continued regressively and serially, ..."

2. Immanuel Kant's Critique of Pure Reason by Immanuel Kant (1881)
"Secondly, it is in reality the unconditioned alone which reason is looking for in the synthesis of conditions, continued regressively and serially, ..."

3. Studies in Philosophy: Ancient and Modern by William Leonard Courtney (1882)
"... from another by means of a syllogism : and as this process may be continued regressively, Kant terms this function of the reason ..."

4. Life After Death: Problems of the Future Life and Its Nature by James Hervey Hyslop (1918)
"They try to prove the existence of God and then argue regressively to survival from his character. But I regard this procedure as unfounded and such a ..."

5. The Eternity of Matter: A Series of Discussions Affirming the Eternity of by Lockhart Brooks Farrar (1910)
"As far as man can trace himself regressively, he finds that he is initiated ... So man tracing himself regressively, finds that he is initiated into living ..."

6. Critique of Pure Reason by Immanuel Kant (1901)
"... not suitable for the formation of a transcendental idea; that is to say, reason has no ground, in regard to it, to proceed regressively with conditions. ..."

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