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Regress   /rˈigrɛs/  /rɪgrˈɛs/   Listen
Regress

noun
1.
The reasoning involved when you assume the conclusion is true and reason backward to the evidence.  Synonym: reasoning backward.
2.
Returning to a former state.  Synonyms: regression, retrogression, retroversion, reversion.
verb
(past & past part. regressed; pres. part. regressing)
1.
Go back to a statistical means.
2.
Go back to a previous state.  Synonyms: retrovert, return, revert, turn back.
3.
Get worse or fall back to a previous condition.  Synonyms: retrograde, retrogress.
4.
Go back to bad behavior.  Synonyms: fall back, lapse, recidivate, relapse, retrogress.



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"Regress" Quotes from Famous Books



... Sutton interrupted her by saying, that he never doubted the honour of Mr. Edgcombe, and was persuaded he could have no ill design in his family. The affair stands thus, and Mr. Edgcombe has four months to provide himself elsewhere; during which time he has free egress and regress; and 'tis seriously the opinion of many that a wedding will in good earnest be brought about by ...
— Lady Mary Wortley Montague - Her Life and Letters (1689-1762) • Lewis Melville
... faith in fortune-tellers. I often expressed to her my astonishment that she should cherish such a belief, and she readily laughed at her own credulity; but notwithstanding never abandoned it: The event had given importance to the prophecy; but the foresight of the prophetess, said to be an old regress, was not the ...
— Memoirs of Napoleon Bonaparte, Complete • Louis Antoine Fauvelet de Bourrienne
... in the case of phenomena a particular limitation of the mode in which conditions are given, that is, through the successive synthesis of the manifold of intuition, which must be complete in the regress. Now whether this completeness is sensuously possible, is a problem. But the idea of it lies in the reason—be it possible or impossible to connect with the idea adequate empirical conceptions. Therefore, as in the absolute totality of the regressive ...
— The Critique of Pure Reason • Immanuel Kant
... Bull, do oblige myself with the readiest of my cash, to purchase and enclose the said grounds, for as many fields and acres as the said Nicholas shall think fit; to the intent that the said Nicholas may have free egress and regress, without let or molestation, suitable to the demands ...
— The History of John Bull • John Arbuthnot
... sideways, to the right hand, into the rock; and then, turning to the right again, worked quite out, and made me a door to come out on the outside of my pale or fortification. This gave me not only egress and regress, as it was a back way to my tent and to my storehouse, but gave me room ...
— Robinson Crusoe • Daniel Defoe


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