regress

Founding-era definition · Webster's 1828 American Dictionary

RE'GRESS, noun [Latin regressus, regredior.] 1. Passage back; return; as ingress and regress 2. The power of returning or passing back. REGRESS', verb intransitive To go back; to return to a former place or state.
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