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improgressive, a.|ɪmprəʊˈgrɛsɪv|
[im-2 + progressive.]
Not progressive; unprogressive.
1809–10Coleridge Friend (1818) III. 179 Improgressive arrangement is not method. 1817― Biog. Lit. (1870) 222 The immense empire of China improgressive for thirty centuries. 1827De Quincey Wks. (1890) IV. 399 Cathedral cities in England, imperial cities without manufactures in Germany, are all in an improgressive condition.
Hence improˈgressively adv., without making progress or advance; improˈgressiveness, the quality of being unprogressive, stationary character.
1827–48Hare Guesses Ser. ii. (1859) 310 The stormbeaten Atlantic, over which men had for ages been sailing to and fro almost improgressively. Ibid. 312 The other great scandal of philosophy, its improgressiveness, may easily be accounted for. 1839Fraser's Mag. XIX. 105 It is this alleged improgressiveness of China that startles the imagination. |