reversion
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
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Etymology: Borrowed into late Middle English from Old French reversion (modern réversion), from Latin reversio, from revertō. By surface analysis, revert + -sion.
Inflected forms:
form: reversions
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The act or process of reverting something.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Near-synonym: reversal
gloss: The act or process of reverting something.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Near-synonym: rollback (sometimes synonymous)
gloss: The action of returning to a former condition or practice.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: With its lavish brass and copperwork, this [bright chocolate] seemed a trifle too gay and unbecoming for a G.W.R. locomotive, and apparently the Company soon shared this view for there was a reversion to the standard Brunswick green.
Well Russia at the present time is at a crossroads. It is often said that the Cold War is over and that the West has won it. That's only half true. Because what has happened is that the communists have been defeated, but the ideas of freedom now are on trial. If they don't work, there will be a reversion to, not communism which has failed, but what I call a new despotism which would pose a mortal danger to the rest of the world because it would be infected with the virus of Russian imperialism which of course has been a characteristic of Russian foreign policy for centuries.
gloss: The fact of being turned the reverse way.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: The action of turning something the reverse way.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: The return of an estate to the donor or grantor after expiry of the grant.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Why nothing capital of my master's wardrobe has drop'd lately—but I could give you a mortgage on some of his winter Cloaths with equity of redemption before November or—you shall have the reversion—of the French velvet, or a post obit on the Blue and Silver—
Each day too slew it’s^([sic]) thousands six or seven,
Till at the crowning carnage—Waterloo—
They threw their pens down in divine disgust,
The page was so besmeared with blood and dust. […]
(Here, Sathan’s sole good work deserves insertion—
’Tis, that he has both Generals in reversion).
By the spring of 1972, however, Peking’s general anti-Japanese offensive was fading away in any case, and in mid-May the reversion of Okinawa to Japanese jurisdiction brought the Self-Defense Forces into the vicinity of the Tiao Yü T’ai (or Senkaku). Peking accordingly dropped the issue as suddenly as it had taken it up.
gloss: An estate which has been returned in this manner.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: The right of succeeding to an estate, or to another possession.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: The right of succeeding to an office after the death or retirement of the holder.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: The return of a genetic characteristic after a period of suppression.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: A sum payable on a person's death.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: The act of conversion to Islam, due to the belief that all people are born Muslim.
pos: noun
tags: countable
proscribed
uncountable
usually
Synonyms: deconversion
regression
restitution
restoration
reversion
step back
Antonyms: conversion
Related words: reversal
status quo ante bellum
undoing
Derived words: antireversion
cycloreversion
manual reversion
nonreversion
photoreversion
prereversion
pseudoreversion
reversionable
reversional
reversionary
reversioner
reversionism
reversionist
seroreversion
Translations:
lang: Bulgarian
word: връщане към
roman: vrǎštane kǎm
lang: Dutch
word: terugkeer
lang: French
word: retour
lang: Latin
word: reversiō