Both Uses of
progressive
in
Gulliver's Travels
- But at the same time the reader can hardly conceive my astonishment, to behold an island in the air, inhabited by men, who were able (as it should seem) to raise or sink, or put it into progressive motion, as they pleased.†
Chpt 3
- I was not in the least sensible of the progressive motion made in the air by the island.†
Chpt 3 *
Definition:
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(progressive as in: progressive decline) gradually advancing or becoming more severe