[1775. Ash.]
1851. H. W. Torrens, Jrnl. Asiat. Soc. Bengal, 40. Such a description of unprogressive civilization.
1869. Tozer, Highl. Turkey, I. 141. Their mode of life … left them … uninstructed and unprogressive.
1886. Tennyson, Locksley Hall 60 Years After, 153. Cries of unprogressive dotage ere the dotard fall asleep!
Hence Unprogressively adv., -ness.
1800. Coleridge, in C. K. Paul, Godwin (1876), II. 13. Life is too melancholy a thing for men in general for the doctrine of unprogressiveness to remain popular.
1869. Farrar, Fam. Speech, iv. (1870), 159. Tribes, in every stage of nomad unprogressiveness or squalid savagery.
1881. Echo, 23 June, 3/6. The Bulgarians of the Principality would be only too content to live quietly, stolidly, and unprogressively.
