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unproˈgressive, a.
(un-1 7, 5 b.)
[1775Ash.] 1851H. W. Torrens Jrnl. Asiat. Soc. Bengal 40 Such a description of unprogressive civilization. 1869H. F. Tozer Highl. Turkey I. 141 Their mode of life..left them..uninstructed and unprogressive. 1886Tennyson Locksley Hall 60 Yrs. After 153 Cries of unprogressive dotage ere the dotard fall asleep!
Hence unproˈgressively adv., -ness.
1800Coleridge in C. K. Paul Godwin (1876) II. 13 Life is too melancholy a thing for men in general for the doctrine of unprogressiveness to remain popular. 1869Farrar Fam. Speech iv. (1870) 159 Tribes..in every stage of nomad unprogressiveness or squalid savagery. 1881Echo 28 June 3/6 The Bulgarians of the Principality would be only too content to live quietly, stolidly, and unprogressively. |