reversionist
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
15
Scrabble Score
12
Letters
4
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
One who clings to previous patterns of behavior or thought, rejecting social or cultural change.
noun
One who has lost faith; a heathen, nonbeliever, or apostate.
adj
Pertaining to or characteristic of reversionists.
Example Sentences
- "The right-wing Reversionist focuses on a small town past where law, order and predictability prevail."
- "These reversionists think technology and industrialism are synonymous. They can't imagine clean technology, human technology."
- "Far from being reversionists, Mateelians are constantly in search of non-polluting, low-energy technology to combine with their labor-intensive strategies and high-quality crafts."
- "A dedicated reversionist, she considered Arthur to have been the last British monarch worthy of the crown. She would have re-instituted the maypole and the setting out of bowls of cream for goblins — despite lack of response to a saucer of Carnation Milk she three times thrice had left on the elegant proch of 3 Mather Gardens."
- "But for the reversionist the indwelling of Christ has no effect."
- "The reality which is expected is the justice of God judging unbeliever reversionists, both Jews and Gentiles, and sending them to the Lake of Fire."
Etymology
Etymology tree English reversion Proto-Indo-European *-id- Proto-Indo-European *-yéti Proto-Indo-European *-idyéti Proto-Hellenic *-íd͏̌d͏̌ō Ancient Greek -ῐ́ζω (-ĭ́zō) Proto-Hellenic *-tās Ancient Greek -τής (-tḗs) Ancient Greek -ῐστής (-ĭstḗs)bor. Latin -istader. Old French -istebor. Middle English -ist English -ist English reversionist From reversion + -ist.