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Find accurate definitions of over 5,000 Catholic terms and phrases (including abbreviations). Based on Fr. John Hardon's Modern Catholic Dictionary, © Eternal Life. Used with permission.

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RETROGRESSION

In moral theology the reaction to frustration by returning to satisfactions more important to an earlier and lower level of spiritual maturity. Also called reversion.

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