regressively
- adverb
- /rɪˈɡrɛsɪvli/
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regresivamente
- Instead, he continues to say that "the intercession of objects ... allows us, albeit regressively, to live our lives," and he ends with the idea that "he who does collect can never entirely shake off an air of impoverishment and depleted humanity."
Examples
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By emphasizing power as a dialectic and acknowledging the strength of the masochist, the paradigm of sadomasochism presents a strategy for reading and identification that does not position the reader regressively.
Academic text (1995) -
There was a 5 percent flat-rate income tax levied on all incomes above $624, a tax falling regressively on low- and moderate-income industrial workers who were paying taxes for the first time.
Academic text (1990) -
Here's another example from Tim Barents, who I regressively cannot claim as a having influence in any way.
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The ego is regressively returned to the force and then is regeneratively empowered by or united with the force.
Academic text (1990) -
It could be that, by our kind of reckoning, his existence is regressively eternal.
Blog text (14) -
So as the last of the Noronsoffs raves on his sick bed, calling death down on those who have wronged him, he regressively merges with the first one aggrieved through an atavism of language.
Academic text (1991) -
Regressively, she's looking over her shoulder, beginning to descend, shifting down into her skirt, then up again for one last fearful glimpse, Eurydice weaving away to Dis.
Academic text (2008) -
The reflexive dimension of this operation applies the same distinction to the elements of the novel and provides the indication that however we proceed in our distinctions, whether regressively or progressively, backward or forward in time, we will always be compelled to proceed by framings; we replace with words what we have never had.
Academic text (2016) -
The new policy was criticized for affecting lower-income families regressively, putting them in a worse financial situation.
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Increasing sales taxes can often impact the poor regressively, as they spend a larger proportion of their income on basic goods.
Synonyms
Moving backward to an earlier less developed state
Antonyms
How Regressive
Surface Forms
Morphology
regressively = regressive (transparent) = regress + ive + ly
Adding the adverbial suffix '-ly' to the adjective 'regressive' yields the manner 'in a regressive way' in a standard, predictable way.
Etymology
The word regressively comes from the parts re- 'back' and gress 'step', which is the same root you see in progress but with 're-' instead of 'pro-'. So, to act regressively is to 'step back' or return to an earlier, less advanced state.