reversion
reversion Lexical Profile
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• noun
A return to a previous state, practice, condition, or habit.
"After several weeks of organizational reform, the department experienced a gradual reversion to its old bureaucratic habits."
In law, the return of an estate or intellectual property right to the original grantor or their heirs after a specified period or lease expires, or the future interest itself.
"The author's estate exercised its right of copyright reversion thirty-five years after the original publication contract was signed."
In biology, the reappearance of an ancestral genetic trait in an organism after being absent for one or more generations, or a reverse mutation that restores the wild-type phenotype.
"Variegated garden shrubs occasionally show a genetic reversion, producing vigorous branches with plain green leaves."
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Word Origin & Etymology
Borrowed in Middle English from Old French 'reversion', from Latin 'reversio' ('a turning back'), a noun of action from the past participle stem of 'revertere' ('to turn back').