unprogress
nounEtymology From un- + progress.
1
The absence or reversal of progress.
- What more pitiable palsy on the attempt to make the world grow better at the point where its most subtle malady of unprogress lies could be imagined?1912, The Unitarian Advance, volume 3, page 132:
- But even within the combustion engine era, the law of unprogress continues to apply.1991, New Statesman Society, volumes 3-4, page 47: