regredience
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[edit]regredience (uncountable)
- A going back; a retrogression.
- 1648, Robert Herrick, “Never Too Late To Dye”, in Hesperides: Or, The Works both Humane & Divine […], London: […] John Williams, and Francis Eglesfield, and are to be sold by Tho[mas] Hunt, […], →OCLC, page 268:
- No man comes late unto that place from vvhence / Never man yet had a regredience.
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[edit]“regredience”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.