Regress: Definition and part of speech

Regress

  1. n. The power or liberty of passing back.
  2. n. The act of passing back; passage back; return; retrogression. “The progress or regress of man”.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.

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