reversion
the act of turning something the reverse way.
the state of being so turned; reversal.
the act of reverting; return to a former practice, belief, condition, etc.
Biology.
reappearance of ancestral characters that have been absent in intervening generations.
return to an earlier or primitive type; atavism.
Law.
the returning of an estate to the grantor or the grantor's heirs after the interest granted expires.
an estate which so returns.
the right of succeeding to an estate.
Archaic. the remains, especially of food or drink after a meal.
Origin of reversion
1Other words from reversion
- re·ver·sion·al·ly, adverb
- non·re·ver·sion, noun
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How to use reversion in a sentence
You’ll note that it is a complete reversion of the week’s previously most important news item!
Daily Crunch: South Korea’s parliament delays final vote on ‘anti-Google law’ | Richard Dal Porto | August 25, 2021 | TechCrunchSuch a reversion would be unpopular and is unlikely to be embraced by legislators with significant vaccine-hostile constituencies.
The administration hoped its new mask guidance would stoke vaccinations. It doesn’t seem to have worked. | Philip Bump | July 22, 2021 | Washington PostIn California, a reversion to stricter containment will likely shift Newsom’s position in the recall fight.
The delta variant threatens to upend the politics of the coronavirus | Philip Bump | July 8, 2021 | Washington PostAB 883 amends the Mental Health Services Act by requiring that funds subject to reversion be reallocated to the county from which the funds reverted.
Sacramento Report: The Bills San Diego Agencies Want Passed | Sara Libby | April 23, 2021 | Voice of San DiegoHe worked extremely hard to become a neutral-ish force on that end, but the reversion he’s seen in recent years is real, and at least somewhat noticeable.
Can Utah’s Wings Hold Their Own Against The Best Of The West? | Jared Dubin | April 21, 2021 | FiveThirtyEight
Wars have been fought with less intensity than the reversion battles on Wikipedia.
Perhaps that name should not be felt so ruefully today, despite the reversion to authoritarian control in Egypt.
Next, perhaps an even more outrageous color will emerge, or maybe there will be a reversion back to something more natural.
Tangled Up in Blue: Young Stars and Their Blue Rinses | Erin Cunningham | July 9, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTThe evidence may be difficult to pin down, but it hovers in the atmosphere, making this reversion felt in myriad ways.
The abnormality of club-foot may be pointed to as a reversion to the shape of the foot in the anthropoid apes.
Man And His Ancestor | Charles MorrisLeeds had, more than twenty years before, obtained from Charles the Second a patent granting the reversion to Caermarthen.
The History of England from the Accession of James II. | Thomas Babington MacaulayThat sad, though glorious reversion of our riper and darker years?
Ernest Linwood | Caroline Lee HentzA suit in Chancery was proceeding, to enable him to sell, to his father, the reversion of a portion of his estates.
The Life and Letters of Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, Volume I (of 2) | Florence A. Thomas MarshallThe threat of tariff war had called forth in the United States loud protests against any such reversion to economic barbarism.
The Canadian Dominion | Oscar D. Skelton
British Dictionary definitions for reversion
/ (rɪˈvɜːʃən) /
a return to or towards an earlier condition, practice, or belief; act of reverting
the act of reversing or the state of being reversed; reversal
biology
the return of individuals, organs, etc, to a more primitive condition or type
the reappearance of primitive characteristics in an individual or group
property law
an interest in an estate that reverts to the grantor or his heirs at the end of a period, esp at the end of the life of a grantee
an estate so reverting
the right to succeed to such an estate
the benefit payable on the death of a life-insurance policyholder
Derived forms of reversion
- reversionally, adverb
- reversionary or reversional, adjective
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