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Reversionary

adjective
1.
Of or relating to or involving a reversion (especially a legal reversion).  "Reversionary interest"



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... the professed worship of devils to be tolerated, more than the Fetish worship, or the African witchcraft, was tolerated in the West Indies. Having, at last, obtained secure possession of the entire island, with no reversionary fear over our heads, (as, up to Waterloo, we always had,) that possibly at a general peace we might find it diplomatically prudent to let it return under Dutch possession, we have no excuse for any longer neglecting the jewel in our power. We gave up to Holland, through unwise ...
— Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 54, No. 337, November, 1843 • Various


Words linked to "Reversionary" :   reversion, law, jurisprudence


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