Sekirov Dictionary

reversionist

noun 3
adjective 1
forms 3

noun3

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One who clings to previous patterns of behavior or thought, rejecting social or cultural change.
- The right-wing Reversionist focuses on a small town past where law, order and predictability prevail. — 1983
The person to whom a property reverts when a freehold expires.
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One who has lost faith; a heathen, nonbeliever, or apostate.
- But for the reversionist the indwelling of Christ has no effect. — 2011

adjective1

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Pertaining to or characteristic of reversionists.
- Certain fringe ecologists are quite as reversionist in their thinking, and reach even farther back for their image of the good life. — 1975

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