regredience

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɹɪˈɡɹiːdi.əns/

Noun

regredience (uncountable)

1. 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.

Related terms

• regredient

References

“regredience”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

Anagrams

• redecreeing