unprogressivelyadv.
/(ˌ)ʌnprəˈɡrɛsɪvli/, U.S. /ˌənprəˈɡrɛsɪvli/ In an unprogressive manner; without progress or advancement.
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the world > action or operation > adversity > [adverb] > without prospering or thriving > without progressing or advancing
unprogressively1839
the world > time > change > absence of change, changelessness > maintaining state or condition > [adverb] > with resistance to change
unprogressively1839
1839 N. P. Trist Let. 2 July in Message President U.S. to Congr. 142 in U.S. Congress. Serial Set (1841) (26th Congr., 2nd Sess.: Senate Doc. 125) III He [sc. the negro] might fit well into the lowest of the subdivisions into which the human cattle are parcelled; and there contentedly, because unprogressively, remain.
1881 Echo 28 June 3/6 The Bulgarians of the Principality would be only too content to live quietly, stolidly, and unprogressively.
1947 Brit. Med. Jrnl. 1 Feb. 193/2 To cling unprogressively to an old method is asking for trouble.
1991 A. Hager Dazzling Images 32 Theses and antitheses about Sidney's works have accumulated somewhat unprogressively.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2014; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
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