All 3 Uses of
regress
in
BoneMan's Daughters
- He'd never made the admission, and he did so now at the risk of sounding like he might be regressing.
Chpt 15 *regressing = returning to a former (less advanced) state
- On the other hand, this kind of honesty was anything but a sign of regression.
Chpt 15
- What I hear on this tape is the same man, pushed into regression by the discovery that his daughter whom he loves more than his own life is now in the hands of a killer.
Chpt 21regression = return to a former (less advanced) state
Definitions:
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(1)
(regress as in: regressed instead of progressed) returning to a former (less advanced) state
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(2)
(meaning too rare to warrant focus) meaning too rare to warrant focus:
Specialized definitions of regression include:- tax policy: regressive taxes cost the poor more relative to their income than the rich
- mathematics or statistics: the process of finding any relationship between variables
- psychology: go back to more childish behavior
- parapsychology: return in one's mind to a previous life (usually under hypnosis)
- logic: reasoning from conclusion to evidence