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Regressive   /rəgrˈɛsɪv/   Listen
Regressive

adjective
1.
(of taxes) adjusted so that the rate decreases as the amount of income increases.
2.
Opposing progress; returning to a former less advanced state.





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"Regressive" Quotes from Famous Books



... of the 16th I started back to Winchester, whence I could better supervise our regressive march. As I was passing through Newtown, I heard cannonading from the direction of Front Royal, and on reaching Winchester, Merritt's couriers brought me word that he had been attacked at the crossing of the Shenandoah by Kershaw's division ...
— The Memoirs of General Philip H. Sheridan, Vol. I., Part 3 • P. H. Sheridan
... the synthesis of the series on the side of the conditions—from that nearest to the given phenomenon up to the more remote—regressive; that which proceeds on the side of the conditioned, from the immediate consequence to the more remote, I shall call the progressive synthesis. The former proceeds in antecedentia, the latter in consequentia. The cosmological ...
— The Critique of Pure Reason • Immanuel Kant


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