All 3 Uses of
progressive
in
The Da Vinci Code
- Progressive admirers, though, hailed Pei's seventy-one-foot-tall transparent pyramid as a dazzling synergy of ancient structure and modern method—a symbolic link between the old and new—helping usher the Louvre into the next millennium.
Chpt 3 (definition 1) *progressive = favoring new idea
- The tasks became progressively harder until they culminated in a successful candidate's induction as thirty-second degree Mason.
Chpt 47-48 (definition 2) *progressively = increasingly
- The eighteen folios—now known as Leonardo's Codex Leicester after their famous owner, the Earl of Leicester—were all that remained of one of Leonardo's most fascinating notebooks: essays and drawings outlining Da Vinci's progressive theories on astronomy, geology, archaeology, and hydrology.
Chpt 71-72 (definition 1)progressive = new
Definitions:
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(1) (progressive as in: progressive ideas) of new ideas intended to make things better; or a person favoring such ideas
or (in politics):
progress based on relatively more confidence that changes to institutions will go well (In the U.S., progressives are likely to vote for the Democratic party; though many Democrats do not consider themselves progressives.)
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(2) (progressive as in: progressive decline) gradually advancing or becoming more severe