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Reversion

noun

(law) an interest in an estate that reverts to the grantor (or his heirs) at the end of some period (e.g., the death of the grantee).

(genetics) a return to a normal phenotype (usually resulting from a second mutation).

A reappearance of an earlier characteristic. Synonyms: atavism, throwback.

Turning in the opposite direction. Synonyms: reversal, reverse, turnabout, turnaround.

Returning to a former state. Synonyms: regress, regression, retrogression, retroversion.

A failure to maintain a higher state. Synonyms: backsliding, lapse, lapsing, relapse, relapsing, reverting.

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"Reversion" Quotes from Famous Books

... slightly austere refinement, he could understand their shrinking from sudden chance and clinging to the customs of the past. They were all, so far as he had seen, characterized by the possession of high qualities, with the exception of Clarence, whom he regarded as a reversion to a baser type; but he thought that they would suffer if uprooted and transplanted in a less sheltered and less cultivated soil. Inherited instincts were difficult to subdue; he was conscious of their influence. ...

— The Long Portage • Harold Bindloss

... after them, to the heirs of their body, and in default of such, to the heirs of the said Elizabeth. Should she die first without heirs, the property was secured to the heirs and assignes of the said Thomas Nash, a reversion certainly not fair to Joan Hart, the poet's sister, and her children. Still, it all seemed too far off to consider. To this document Mrs. Hall appended her signature and her seal, with the arms of Shakespeare impaled with those ...

— Shakespeare's Family • Mrs. C. C. Stopes

... of the clergy of the church of Saint-Saturnin at Plassans. He did duty as vicar during the illness of Abbe Compan, and had been led to expect the reversion of the appointment. Pressure brought to bear on Bishop Rousselot led to the selection of Abbe Faujas, and Bourrette was put off with vague promises for the future. He was a simple-minded, amiable man, who accepted his disappointment without murmuring, and continued on ...

— A Zola Dictionary • J. G. Patterson

... wrapped, such a little dark head and swarthy face were exposed to view as might have made intelligent spectators (if there were any in Downside church that afternoon, which I doubt) reflect on the laws of heredity and reversion ...

— Zoe • Evelyn Whitaker

... of any foreign prince whilst she herself was still a subject; well aware that to accept of an alliance which would carry her out of the kingdom, was to hazard the loss of her succession to the English crown, a splendid reversion never absent from ...

— Memoirs of the Court of Queen Elizabeth • Lucy Aikin

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