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Word Meanings - ONWARDNESS - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Progress; advancement.

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  • PROGRESSIONAL
    Of or pertaining to progression; tending to, or capable of, progress.
  • PROGRESS
    to go forth or forward; pro forward + gradi to step, go: cf. F. 1. A moving or going forward; a proceeding onward; an advance; specifically: In actual space, as the progress of a ship, carriage, etc. In the growth of an animal or plant; increase.
  • PROGRESSION
    Regular or proportional advance in increase or decrease of numbers; continued proportion, arithmetical, geometrical, or harmonic. (more info) 1. The act of moving forward; a proceeding in a course; motion onward. 2. Course; passage; lapse
  • PROGRESSIST
    One who makes, or holds to, progress; a progressionist.
  • PROGRESSIVE PARTY
    The political party formed, chiefly out of the Republican party, by the adherents of Theodore Roosevelt in the presidential campaign of 1912. The name Progressive party was chosen at the meeting held on Aug. 7, 1912, when the candidates
  • PROGRESSIONIST
    1. One who holds to a belief in the progression of society toward perfection. 2. One who maintains the doctrine of progression in organic forms; -- opposed to uniformitarian. H. Spencer.
  • ADVANCEMENT
    Property given, usually by a parent to a child, in advance of a future distribution. 4. Settlement on a wife, or jointure. Bacon. (more info) 1. The act of advancing, or the state of being advanced; progression; improvement; furtherance;
  • PROGRESSIVE
    1. Moving forward; proceeding onward; advancing; evincing progress; increasing; as, progressive motion or course; -- opposed to retrograde. 2. Improving; as, art is in a progressive state. Progressive euchre or whist, a way of playing
  • IMPROGRESSIVE
    Not progressive. De Quincey. -- Im"pro*gress"ive*ly, adv.

 

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