Retrocede vs Retrocessive – What’s the difference?

Retrocede vs Retrocessive - What's the difference?

As a verb retrocede is .

As an adjective retrocessive is tending to retrocede; moving backward.

retrocede

(en-verb)

To grant back.

to retrocede a territory to a former proprietor

To go back.

* 1994 , David F Drake, Reforming the health care market: an interpretive economic history

Hospitals retrenched in the ’30s while the general practitioners retroceded into a bygone era.

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Tending to retrocede; moving backward.

* retrocessively