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backslide
To regress; to slip backwards or revert to a previous, worse state.
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  1. To regress; to slip backwards or revert to a previous, worse state.
  2. To revert to bad habits or lapse in religious practice.
  3. To slide backward in morals or religious enthusiasm; become less virtuous, less pious, etc.
relapse
To recur. Used of an illness.
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  1. To recur. Used of an illness.
  2. To slip or fall back into a former condition, esp. after improvement or seeming improvement
  3. To become sicker after partial recovery from an illness.
revert
(Law) To return (an estate, for example) to the grantor or the grantor's heirs or successor.
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  1. (Law) To return (an estate, for example) to the grantor or the grantor's heirs or successor.
  2. (Biol.) To return to a former or primitive type; show ancestral characteristics normally no longer present in the species
  3. To cause to go back to a former condition, practice, subject, or belief:
backslide
To regress; to slip backwards or revert to a previous, worse state.
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  1. To regress; to slip backwards or revert to a previous, worse state.
  2. To revert to bad habits or lapse in religious practice.
  3. To slide backward in morals or religious enthusiasm; become less virtuous, less pious, etc.
lapse
To become forfeit or void because of failure to pay the premium at the stipulated time
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  1. To become forfeit or void because of failure to pay the premium at the stipulated time
  2. To be no longer valid or active; expire:
  3. To pass gradually or smoothly; slip:
relapse
To return to a former state.
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  1. To return to a former state.
  2. To slip or fall back into a former condition, esp. after improvement or seeming improvement
  3. To become sicker after partial recovery from an illness.
retrogress
To go or move backward.
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  1. To go or move backward.
  2. To return to an earlier, inferior, or less complex condition.
revert
(Law) To be returned to the former owner or to the former owner's heirs. Used of money or property.
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  1. (Law) To be returned to the former owner or to the former owner's heirs. Used of money or property.
  2. To go back to a former condition, practice, subject, or belief:
  3. (Biol.) To return to a former or primitive type; show ancestral characteristics normally no longer present in the species
Find another word for regress. In this page you can discover 13 synonyms, antonyms, idiomatic expressions, and related words for regress, like: backslide, relapse, revert, relapse, retreat, sink, backslide, lapse, relapse, retrogress and revert.

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  • Even so the inference to the a priori ground of its necessity is, it has been often pointed out, subject to the limitation inherent in any process of reduction, in any regress, that is, from conditionate to condition, viz.

  • Once applied to the facts at all, it would drive us beyond the first antecedent or term of antecedents of volition to a still further cause or ground - in fact, land us in an infinite regress of causes.

  • If, then, there is objective truth at all, the existence of real facts must be made known to us otherwise than through the logical faculty of thought; and, as the regress from conclusion to premises must depend upon something not itself capable of logical grounding, mediate thought implies the consciousness of immediate truth.

  • The former should be regarded as asserting that the whole is, not temporally, but logically, subsequent to the part, and that therefore there is an infinite regress in the notion of a whole which is infinitely divisible - a view which at any rate demands a serious refutation.

  • If we reject the infinite regress and the circle in proof (circulus in probando) which resolves itself ultimately into proving A by B and B by A, 7 we are confronted by the need for principles of two kinds, those which condition all search scientific for truth, and those which are the peculiar or proper principles.

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