He wondered also if that moment was not for many of them a let-down, a throwing up of ideals, a helpless Retrograding and surrender to the brutalizing spirit of war.
"The Desert of Wheat"
Zane Grey
We imagine our train to be going back when a parallel train is going faster forward, and we are apt to take the general condition of mankind to be Retrograding when we fix our eyes exclusively on the rapid and remarkable enrichment of the fortunate few.
"Contemporary Socialism"
John Rae
Being generally self-possessed, she had a horror of slipping into shyness and so Retrograding from her usual vantage ground.
"The Way of Ambition"
Robert Hichens