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noun
Regress  n.  
1.
The act of passing back; passage back; return; retrogression. "The progress or regress of man".
2.
The power or liberty of passing back.





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"Regress" Quotes from Famous Books



... the utmost end of the heavens is his egress; and his compassing-regress is unto the utmost-ends of them: and none is hidd, ...
— Sabbath in Puritan New England • Alice Morse Earle
... 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
... prey, I worked sideways 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 ...
— McGuffey's Fourth Eclectic Reader • William Holmes McGuffey
... 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 ...
— Lady Mary Wortley Montague - Her Life and Letters (1689-1762) • Lewis Melville


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