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progress
  1. Movement or advancement through a series of events, or points in time; development through time. [from 15th c.]
  2. Specifically, advancement to a higher or more developed state; development, growth. [from 15th c.]
  3. An official journey made by a monarch or other high personage; a state journey, a circuit. [from 15th c.]
  4. (now rare) A journey forward; travel. [from 15th c.]
  5. Movement onwards or forwards or towards a specific objective or direction; advance. [from 16th c.]
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  7. Examples:
    1. “With the balmy weather, our progress was smooth and uninterrupted.”
      “We're pleased to report that progress in our computer model has been rapid over the last few months.”
progression
  1. The act of moving from one thing to another.
  2. The act of moving forward or proceeding in a course; motion onward.
  3. (mathematics) A sequence obtained by adding or multiplying each term by a constant.
  4. Development, increase, evolution.
  5. (music) chord progression
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    1. “The premarital counselor or educator can use various strategies to aid couples in the development of and progression towards the shared vision for the marriage.”
      “The vista unfolds in a progression of castles and vineyards as seemingly endless as the Rhine itself.”
      “No studies have evaluated the rate of disease progression in asymptomatic patients.”
progressive
  1. A person who actively favors or strives for progress towards improved conditions, as in society or government.
  2. (grammar) A progressive verb; a verb used the progressive tense and generally conjugated as to end in -ing.
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  4. Examples:
    1. “He supported small business over large landowners and was a liberal progressive in his politics.”
progressionist
  1. An advocate of social progress, ideally towards perfection
  2. (biology) A person who holds that all life forms gradually evolve to a higher form
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    1. “Merriam's views of evolution were progressionist, much more so than the views of most evolutionary biologists today.”
      “Darwin opted for a progressionist interpretation of the record.”
      “In the new world of our progressionist teachers, it is electricity that is the real motive-power.”
progressivism
  1. A political ideology that favours progress towards better conditions in society.
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  3. Examples:
    1. “This progressivism has provided the dominant tenor of most Western art criticism for at least half a century.”
      “Student councils and other forms of student government became widespread because of the influence of American progressivism.”
      “He presents progressivism as the dominant paradigm at the beginning of the twentieth century.”
progressist
  1. One who makes or supports progress; a progressionist.
  2. Examples:
    1. “His working-men's meeting had been dissolved by a progressist Burgomaster without any legal justification.”
      “From the first he took an important place in the chamber, as one of the most notable orators of the progressist Republican group.”
      “Nessma is the progressist channel in the Maghreb and we will not be deterred.”
progressor
  1. A person who makes progress, or facilitates progress in others.
progressivist
  1. An advocate of progressivism.
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  3. Examples:
    1. “The hidden progressivist agenda on this issue lies in the disparagement of verbal learning.”
      “This would only hide the present lack of insight and ideas among the Australian progressivist and liberalist middle class.”
      “As recently noted, the progressivist narrative of the history of psychology of women and feminism is problematic.”
progressivity
  1. The condition of being progressive.
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    1. “The progressivity of a society can be measured by its commitment to advancing social, political, and economic equality for all its citizens.”
      “Increase the progressivity of the federal income tax, and finance Medicare through increased sin taxes, gas taxes, and general revenue.”
      “Some people, such as our German friends, want to retain only one criterion and to abandon progressivity.”
progressiveness
  1. The quality of being progressive
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  3. Examples:
    1. “The progressiveness or regressiveness of redistributions of income and wealth resulting from farm subsidies and food programs.”
      “It defends the general reliability, corrigibility, and progressiveness of empirical knowledge against relativism and skepticism.”
      “But as the progressiveness of the illness takes its course, they will not be able to hide it.”
progressionists
progressivists
progressivisms
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progressives
  1. plural of progressive
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    1. “At the turn of the decade many progressives were ready to believe in a new ethical, rather than realpolitik, motivation in foreign policy.”
      “All those who regard themselves as progressives must stand firm in the face of this new politics.”
      “In contrast, Lakoff tells us, progressives are modeled as the nurturant parent.”
progressions
  1. plural of progression
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  3. Examples:
    1. “There are some well-constructed chord progressions and melodies but her music often lacks an overarching vision to hold it together.”
      “Looking at progressions and transits to your natal chart we see Saturn, the planet of restriction, putting some limitations on you.”
      “Unit 3 presents major scales, triads and inversions, and chord progressions on white-key tonics.”
progressists
  1. plural of progressist
progressors
  1. plural of progressor
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