regress

IPA: rˈigrɛs

The act of passing back; passage back; return; retrogression.
The power or liberty of passing back.
(property law) The right of a person (such as a lessee) to return to a property.

(intransitive) To move backwards to an earlier stage; to devolve.
(psychology) To re-develop behavior one had previously grown out of, particularly a behavior left behind in childhood.
(intransitive, astronomy) To move in the retrograde direction.
(intransitive, medicine) To reduce in severity or size (as of a tumor), without reaching total remission.
(transitive, statistics) To perform a regression on an explanatory variable.
(transitive) To interrogate a person in a state of trance about forgotten elements of their past.

Examples of "regress" in Sentences

The main argument for foundationalism is called the regress argument.
An infinite regress is no longer an easy, simple, or adequate explanation.
Infinite regress is just another metaphysical conclusion, no different that gods/God.
May the lake once again regress to its most pleasant state and leave us the hell alone.
But she said that she started to regress, which is often -- also a hallmark of many people with autism.
The problem with an infinite regress is that it is a fallacious attempt to make an unsound argument support itself.
To monumentalize this observation into a method of reading would be to regress from the rigor exhibited by Shelley which is exemplary because it refuses to be generalized into a system.
I haven't seen Heidegger's history of philosophy described as a regress before, but I can see the narrative, that man was in the Garden of Beyng, then Plato drank from the tree of metaphysical kool-aid and we've been dealing with that original sin since.
Sir John walked there some time, expecting the reappearance of the knight, whom he intended to assist in leading home; but after an hour, finding no signs of regress from the palace, and thinking his father might be wondering at his delay, he turned his steps towards his own lodgings.