Definitions for reversion

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reversion re·ver·sion

Spelling: [ri-vur-zhuh n, -shuh n]

IPA: /rɪˈvɜr ʒən, -ʃən/

Reversion is a 9 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 12 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 14 points.

You can make 295 anagrams from letters in reversion (eeinorrsv).

Definitions for reversion

noun

1. the act of turning something the reverse way.
2. the state of being so turned; reversal.
3. the act of reverting; return to a former practice, belief, condition, etc.
4. Biology. reappearance of ancestral characters that have been absent in intervening generations. return to an earlier or primitive type; atavism.
5. 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.
6. Archaic. the remains, especially of food or drink after a meal.

Origin of reversion

1350-1400; Middle English Latin reversiōn- (stem of reversiō) a turning back. See reverse, -ion

Examples for reversion

War is neither an overflow of energy nor a reversion to primitive states.

The psychologist tends to see in war a reversion, a lapse to barbarism.

A reversion to close imperialism would be for her a retrogression.

The evidence may be difficult to pin down, but it hovers in the atmosphere, making this reversion felt in myriad ways.

Wars have been fought with less intensity than the reversion battles on Wikipedia.

They are only playing each other's rôles, because the poles have swung into reversion.

Next, perhaps an even more outrageous color will emerge, or maybe there will be a reversion back to something more natural.

"You epitomize it beautifully," said Mr. Caryll, with a reversion to his habitual manner.

Perhaps that name should not be felt so ruefully today, despite the reversion to authoritarian control in Egypt.

I used the word 'atavism' to mean a reversion to the primitive.