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Reverting

noun

A failure to maintain a higher state. Synonyms: backsliding, lapse, lapsing, relapse, relapsing, reversion.

adjective

Tending to return to an earlier state. Synonym: returning.

Revert

verb

(past & past part. reverted; pres. part. reverting)

Go back to a previous state. Synonyms: regress, retrovert, return, turn back.

Undergo reversion, as in a mutation.

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"Reverting" Quotes from Famous Books

... Reverting to Poor Tom, well may the words of Dickens in Bleak House serve as a text for to-day: "There is not an atom of Tom's shrine, not a cubic inch of any pestilential gas in which he lives, nor an obscurity or degradation about ...

— Library Work with Children • Alice I. Hazeltine

... aside as having no connection with her own life. I have seen the same thing—though, happily, only in exceptional cases—among educated Indians, girls who had spent years in the schools at Faribault or under the direct training of missionaries reverting on marriage to old wigwam habits, and content to eat the parched corn and boiled dog of their early experience. The same law holds in full force among many of the Irish, who, no matter how well trained or how exacting in their demand for varied food while servants, ...

— Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Vol. 26, September 1880 • Various

... said he, reverting to his lady love, as he eyed himself intently in the glass while performing the critical operation, "I'll just sound the old gentleman after dinner—one can do that sort of thing better over one's wine, perhaps, than ...

— Mr. Sponge's Sporting Tour • R. S. Surtees

... Lynda! The day brings appetite and strength; the night, sleep! I wonder whether you know what that means? I begin to believe I am reverting to type, as McPherson would say, and I'm intensely interested in finding out—what type? Whenever I think of study, I have an attack of mental indigestion. There is only one fellow creature to share my desolation but I am never lonely—never lacking employment. I'm busy to the verge of exhaustion ...

— The Man Thou Gavest • Harriet T. Comstock

... 'I?' said Sir George, reverting to the easy, half-insolent tone she hated. And he tapped his Paris snuff-box and spoke with tantalising slowness. 'Well, if that be the case, I should advise you to see that Mr. Dunborough's surplice—covers ...

— The Castle Inn • Stanley John Weyman

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