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Progressive, -yve, adv. and adj. [F. progressif, -ive. (14th c. in Hatz.-Darm.), f. L. progress-, see Progres(s n. Cf. 17th c. Eng. progressive adj. (1607–12).] a. adv. Step by step, successively. b. adj. Marked by continuous improvement. — 1513 Doug. vii Prol. 32.
Frawart Saturn … Went progressyve [Ruddim. -iue] the greis of his ascens — 1653 Binning Wks. 235.
The life as well as the light of the righteous is progressive
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