REGRESS

I. noun see: grade Date: 14th century 1. an act or the privilege of going or coming back, reentry 1, movement backward to a previous and especially worse or more primitive state or condition, the act of reasoning backward, II. Date: 1552 intransitive verb 1. to make or undergo ~ ; retrograde , to be subject to or exhibit ~ion, to tend to approach or revert to a mean, transitive verb to induce a state of psychological ~ion in, ~or noun