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progressiveness

 

  2  definitions  found 
 
  From  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  Progressive  \Pro*gress"ive\,  a.  [Cf.  F.  progressif.] 
  1.  Moving  forward;  proceeding  onward;  advancing;  evincing 
  progress;  increasing;  as  progressive  motion  or  course;  -- 
  opposed  to  retrograde. 
 
  2.  Improving;  as  art  is  in  a  progressive  state. 
 
  {Progressive  euchre}  or  {whist},  a  way  of  playing  at  card 
  parties,  by  which  after  every  game,  the  losers  at  the 
  first  table  go  to  the  last  table,  and  the  winners  at  all 
  the  tables,  except  the  first  move  up  to  the  next  table. 
 
 
  {Progressive  muscular  atrophy}  (Med.),  a  nervous  disorder 
  characterized  by  continuous  atrophy  of  the  muscles.  -- 
  {Pro*gress"ive*ly},  adv  --  {Pro*gress"ive*ness},  n. 
 
  From  WordNet  r  1.6  [wn]: 
 
  progressiveness 
  n  :  advancement  toward  better  conditions  or  policies  or  methods 
  [syn:  {progressivity}]




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