Etymology
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reversion (n.)

late 14c., reversioun, a legal word used in reference to the return of an estate to the heirs of a grantor on the expiration of the grant, from Old French reversion and directly from Latin reversionem (nominative reversio) "act of turning back," noun of action from past-participle stem of revertere (see revert). From early 15c. as "a return to a place."

reversion has various senses, chiefly legal or biological .... It suffices to day that they all correspond to the verb revert, & not to the verb reverse, whose noun is reversal. [Fowler]

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revert (v.)

c. 1300, reverten, "to come to oneself again, regain consciousness, recover from illness" (senses now obsolete), from Anglo-French reverter, Old French revertir "return, change back," from Vulgar Latin *revertire, variant of Latin revertere "turn back, turn about; come back, return," from re- "back" (see re-) + vertere "to turn" (from PIE root *wer- (2) "to turn, bend").

Meaning "return to a former state or position" is from mid-15c. Of property, "revert to a grantor or his successor," from mid-15c.; in reference to a return to a former habit, practice, custom, etc., from 1610s. In biology, "go back to an earlier, primitive, or ancestral type," 1859. Related: Reverted; reverting.

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Definitions of reversion

reversion (n.)
(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);
reversion (n.)
(genetics) a return to a normal phenotype (usually resulting from a second mutation);
reversion (n.)
a reappearance of an earlier characteristic;
Synonyms: atavism / throwback
reversion (n.)
turning in the opposite direction;
Synonyms: reverse / reversal / turnabout / turnaround
reversion (n.)
returning to a former state;
Synonyms: regression / regress / retrogression / retroversion
reversion (n.)
a failure to maintain a higher state;
Synonyms: backsliding / lapse / lapsing / relapse / relapsing / reverting
From wordnet.princeton.edu

Dictionary entries near reversion

reverential

reverie

reversal

reverse

reversible

reversion

revert

revest

revetment

revictual

review

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