It was a regression, the triumph of a latent aristocratic gene that resides in the heart of humanity when democracies get lazy.
They've got sophisticated reasons why your regression is all wrong.
Worst of all, they elide the obvious point that all revolts fluctuate between periods of progress and regression.
He called this phenomenon of reactivation or secondary exaggeration of infantile reminiscences "regression."
And there is no doubt that this regression has taken place in the course of history.
Everything in that attitude was symbolical of her regression to, not only infancy, but the prenatal condition.
The interruptions are easily explained by the theory of regression.
The different "levels" of the stupor reaction also conform to a theory of regression.
regression is not inevitable, for it may be overcome by selection.
This is a legitimate use of regression although it is not used so much these days to uncover past traumatic incidents.
regression re·gres·sion (rĭ-grěsh'ən)
A subsidence of the symptoms of a disease.
A relapse of symptoms.
Reversion to an earlier or less mature pattern of feeling or behavior.
Relapse to a less perfect or developed state.
The return of a population to an earlier or less complex physical type in successive generations.
The relationship between the mean value of a random variable and the corresponding values of one or more independent variables.