Reversion is valid Scrabble Word

Is reversion a scrabble word?
Official Scrabble Players Dictionary YES
Official Tournament and Club Word List YES
Collins Scrabble Words YES
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9 letters word
12 points in Scrabble
14 points in WWF

Definitions for REVERSION in dictionary:

NOUN:

the act of reverting
a return to a previous state, practice, or belief
the action of reverting to a former or ancestral type
the right, especially of the original owner or their heirs, to possess or succeed to property on the death of the present possessor or at the end of a lease
a property to which someone has the right of reversion
the right of succession to an office or post after the death or retirement of the holder
an incurable disease of the blackcurrant transmitted by the blackcurrant gall mite.
return to a former state, practice, or belief
The act of returning, or coming back; return.
That which reverts or returns; residue.

The returning of an esttate to the grantor or his heirs, by operation of law, after the grant has terminated; hence, the residue of an estate left in the proprietor or owner thereof, to take effect in possession, by operation of law, after the termination of a limited or less estate carved out of it and conveyed by him.
Hence, a right to future possession or enjoiment; succession.
A payment which is not to be received, or a benefit which does not begin, until the happening of some event, as the death of a living person.
A return towards some ancestral type or character; atavism.
(law) an interest in an estate that reverts to the grantor (or his heirs) at the end of some period (e.g., the death of the grantee)
(genetics) a return to a normal phenotype (usually resulting from a second mutation)
a reappearance of an earlier characteristic
turning in the opposite direction
returning to a former state
a failure to maintain a higher state
a sum payable on a person's death, especially by way of life insurance.

Words related to REVERSION

reversionally19 reversionary18 reversions13

Words that contain REVERSION

reversions13 reversional14 reversioner14 reversionary18 reversioners15 reversionally19 reversionaries17

How to use REVERSION in a sentence

From his Holiness he obtained a reversion of the title in perpetuity for his descendants.
In consideration of which, Time, whose registers they are, gives them a lease in reversion, to continue their works after their death.
Upon seeing her audacious smile and her calm eyes fixed upon him, he felt within him a shameful reversion.
Where it leads to murder or revenge it is a reversion to the barbarous type, and apart from that it is, like all affections of the mind, liable to abnormal and morbid states.
And the losses in reversion were likely to be many more.
Such a reversion to type had taken place in Oscar Wilde.
Now, when his delirium plunged him back to Houndsditch, though it gave me a jerk, I could account for it as reversion to an old habit that had been put off before ever we met.
Writers who have a purpose in view, were it only a reversion to principles familiar in the past because they are eternal, should always clear the ground.
BILL FOR PROHIBITING THE GRANT OF OFFICES IN REVERSION, ETC.
As the bill for prohibiting the grant of offices in reversion was now about to expire, Mr.

When I was in the wine business he might have enabled me to make a large fortune simply by settling on me then the reversion of property which, when he dies, ought to be my own.
Richard, Duke of York, did not live to enjoy the crown, his right to the reversion of which had recently been acknowledged by parliament.
Like the stage-play, the garden-play brings its beholder back at the very last, by a sweet reversion, to the point from which it started.
Reversion of letters of a word to form a new name was common, 699-m.
Nor is it true, as men pretend, that a few full meals and fine clothes obliterate all taint of alien instinct and reversion.
They have threatened one gentleman to have a reversion cut off from his son, unless he will vote with them.
Theodoric also ordered that their children and descendants should have the reversion of this.
Thus rudimentary parts are left to the free play of the various laws of growth, to the effects of long-continued disuse, and to the tendency to reversion.
Although new and important modifications may not arise from reversion and analogous variation, such modifications will add to the beautiful and harmonious diversity of nature.
This movement apparently results from the retention, chiefly during youth, of a primordial habit, or from an occasional reversion to it.
In due time, they secured a fair and adequate reversion in the soil which they had planted and so nobly defended.
She sold it to the father of George, who by his will left it to his son Lawrence, with a reversion to George should Lawrence die without issue.
We are required to take them absolutely, without any reversion of mental reservation.
The officials turned pale, and calculated the chance of a broken neck in reversion, with that of a broken crown in immediate possession.
Nay the reversion of several employments during pleasure are granted the same way.
In one sense, indeed, social democracy is essentially a reversion to a more simple life, more Arcadian and idyllic than that which aristocracy has fostered.
A similar curious reversion has taken place in the development of telephone lines.
Another curious and interesting example of this reversion to type exists in the simple telephone receiver.
They clear their consciences by maintaining, that what is parted with is not lost, and foster their hopes with the idea of its reversion.
I am the main condition of a contingent reversion in their favor.
Half of this went at once to Honoria and the other half to the life-use of Lady Fraser with a reversion to her daughter.

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