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Reversionary

adjective

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

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"Reversionary" Quotes from Famous Books

... may be stated, owed his fishy title to the fact that he once possessed a Wealthy Relative of the name of Haddon. With far-sighted reversionary intent his mother, a Mrs. Berners nee Seymour ...

— Snake and Sword - A Novel • Percival Christopher Wren

... qualities. They come from seed, when this is taken from striped individuals, and thence revert from time to time to the corresponding monochromatic type. But whether they would do so when self-fertilized, and whether the reversionary individuals are always bound to return towards the center of the group or towards the opposite limit, remains to be investigated. Presumably there is nowhere a real transgression of the limits, and never or only very rarely and at long intervals of time a true ...

— Species and Varieties, Their Origin by Mutation • Hugo DeVries

... deaness! the notion's too ridiculous. Fly away, little Miss Butterfly; fly away, sweet little frolicsome, laughsome creature. I won't try to tie you down to a man in a black clerical coat with a very distant hypothetical reversionary prospect of a dull and dingy country parsonage. Flit elsewhere, little Miss Butterfly, flit elsewhere, and find yourself ...

— Philistia • Grant Allen

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