retrogression

Definitions

1. A deterioration or decline to a previous state.
   countable, uncountable
2. A return to a less complex condition.
   countable, uncountable

Equivalents

Examples

“History and experience⟳, the enshriners of the past, and investigation, the discoverer of the present⟳ and preparer for the future, will prevent⟳ retrogression.”

“Suns spring⟳ into being, and then their height of power being reached, the process⟳ of retrogression begins, and after aeons they become⟳ dead masses of matter⟳, awaiting another impulse which starts again their inner energies into activity and a new solar life cycle is begun.”

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