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/rɪvˈərʒən/ Listen

noun

Reversion n.

1.

The act of returning, or coming back; return. (Obs.) "After his reversion home, (he) was spoiled, also, of all that he brought with him."

2.

That which reverts or returns; residue. (Obs.) "The small reversion of this great navy which came home might be looked upon by religious eyes as relics."

3.

(Law) The returning of an estate to the grantor or his heirs, by operation of law, after the grant has terminated; hence, the residue of an estate left in the proprietor or owner thereof, to take effect in possession, by operation of law, after the termination of a limited or less estate carved out of it and conveyed by him.

4.

Hence, a right to future possession or enjoyment; succession. "For even reversions are all begged before."

5.

(Annuities) A payment which is not to be received, or a benefit which does not begin, until the happening of some event, as the death of a living person.

6.

(Biol.) A return towards some ancestral type or character; atavism.

Reversion of series (Alg.), the act of reverting a series. See To revert a series, under Revert, v. t.

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"Reversion" Quotes from Famous Books

... nature of the "beginning" of things but the nature of their "end" also; this "end" being nothing less than some purely hypothetical "equilibrium" when the movement of "advance," coming full circle, rounds itself off into the movement of "reversion." ...

— The Complex Vision • John Cowper Powys

... of debt and disenchantment came news of a slight inflicted by the Latin sister of the North. France had seized Tunis, a land on which Italian patriots looked as theirs by reversion, whereas the exigencies of statecraft assigned it to the French. It seems that during the Congress of Berlin (June-July 1878) Bismarck and Lord Salisbury unofficially dropped suggestions that their Governments would raise no objections to the occupation ...

— The Development of the European Nations, 1870-1914 (5th ed.) • John Holland Rose

... 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. He came from a new land where he had often toiled for ...

— The Long Portage • Harold Bindloss

... supplicant, "any thing whatever for me; beggars must not be choosers: possibly the office of vice-president might soon be vacant; it was said that the present man lay shockingly ill." Not at all; he was rapidly recovering; and the reversion, even if he should die, required enormous interest, for which a canvass had long since commenced on the part of fifty-three candidates. Thus proceeded the assault upon the secretary, and thus was it evaded. So moved the chase, and thus retreated the game, until at length nothing ...

— Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 54, No. 337, November, 1843 • Various

... reversion to the prankishness of a growing boy, Graham pointed his finger at Ruth, who instantly screamed. The girls looking on, laughed, and there was some excuse for their amusement. The spectacle of the sensible Ruth, shrinking and shrieking over nothing more alarming than ...

— Peggy Raymond's Vacation - or Friendly Terrace Transplanted • Harriet L. (Harriet Lummis) Smith

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