Devolution is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for DEVOLUTION in dictionary:

NOUN:
• transference (as of rights, powers, property, or responsibility) to another
• the transfer or delegation of power to a lower level, especially by central government to local or regional administration
• the legal transfer of property from one owner to another.
• descent to a lower or worse state
• evolutionary degeneration.
• The act of rolling down.
• Transference from one person to another; a passing or devolving upon a successor.
• the process of declining from a higher to a lower level of effective power or vitality or essential quality
• the delegation of authority (especially from a central to a regional government)
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• transference (as of rights, powers, property, or responsibility) to another; the surrender of powers to local authorities by a central government

Words related to DEVOLUTION

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Words that contain DEVOLUTION

devolutions15 devolutionary20 devolutionist17 devolutionists18

How to use DEVOLUTION in a sentence

• Felix, though an offshoot from a far more recent point in the devolution of theology than his father, was less self-sacrificing and disinterested.
• His account of the origin and devolution of the famous treasures will invest them with a new interest in the happy days when they shall again be visible.
• It stands for evolution rather than for devolution or revolution.
• It is an old native element recast in Roman form, and well illustrates the Roman principle of local government by devolution.
• Devolution is quite as natural as evolution, and may be just as pleasing, or even a good deal more pleasing, to God.
• He entered into relations with a group of prominent Irishmen, headed by Lord Dunraven, who were thinking out a scheme for a mild measure of devolution.
• The mechanical theory of devolution which assumes so much importance in some fashionable Anglican teaching about the Church need not detain us long.

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