regredience

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɹɪˈɡɹiːdi.əns/

Noun

regredience (uncountable)

1. A going back; a retrogression.
   • 1648, Robert Herrick, “Never Too Late To Die”, in Hesperides: Or, The Works both Humane & Divine […], London: […] John Williams, and Francis Eglesfield, and are to be sold by Tho[mas] Hunt, […], →OCLC; republished as Henry G. Clarke, editor, Hesperides, or Works both Human and Divine, volumes (please specify |volume=I or II), London: H. G. Clarke and Co., […], 1844, →OCLC:

     No man comes late unto that place from whence
     Never man yet had a regredience

     The spelling has been modernized.

Related terms

• regredient

References

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

Anagrams

• redecreeing