reversionist

plural reversionists

1. 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, P. Susan Penfold, Gillian Walker, Women and the psychiatric paradox, page 134

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   These reversionists think technology and industrialism are synonymous. They can't imagine clean technology, human technology.

   1987, Alvin Toffler, Previews & Premises, →ISBN, page 90

   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.

   1990, Jentri Anders, Beyond Counterculture: The Community of Mateel, page 10

   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.

   2011, Colin Watson, Broomsticks Over Flaxborough, →ISBN

2. lifestyleOne who has lost faith; a heathen, nonbeliever, or apostate.

   But for the reversionist the indwelling of Christ has no effect.

   2011, Daniel J. Coleman, The New Day Experience, →ISBN

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   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.

   2012, D.A. Miller, A Theological Study of The Book of Romans, →ISBN, page 86

   Lot is a believer who is a monetary reversionist. He abandoned the directive will of God for "sordid gain" (cf. 1Tim. 3:8; Titus 1:7, 11; 1Pet. 5:2; Gk. aischrokerdes).

   2013, Terry Puett, Institute Of Biblical Studies The Book Of Genesis, →ISBN, page 268

3. The person to whom a property reverts when a freehold expires.

   On the other hand, if land values were subjected to a special rate (as under the terms of Montagu's bill), it would be the occupying and ultimate owner who would suffer - not the intermediate reversionist.

   1975, Michael K. Barker, Gladstone and radicalism, page 142

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   As to the argument about the possibility of the reversionist not being capable of discharging his duties, that would equally apply to the granting a place for one life, as then the holder might live so long, or become so infirm as to be unable to fulfil all the duties of his situation.

   1812, Parliamentary Debates: Official Report - Volume 15

   If the particular species of clamour, to which we allude, has in some degree subsided, we doubt whether the cessateion of hostilities is so much to be ascribed to a full sense of its absurdity and wickedness, as to a growing consciousness that the lewd libidinous stare, directed against the jewels of the crown, would in time be transferred to wealth of a more substantial kind, and that the fund-holder and land-owner would come in for a share of that clamour which had hitherto been confined to the pensionist and the reversionist.

   1822, The Quarterly review - Volume 26, page 268

   Between the "occupier" pure and simple and the freehold reversionist, there are, usually, a large number of intermediate beneficial interests in the property : of which the occupier is probably possessed of a portion and the reversionist of another portion.

   1892, A Handbook to Political Questions of the Day, page 304

comparative more reversionist · superlative most reversionist

1. Pertaining to or characteristic of reversionists.

   This confirms that the design process is more reversionist than might be imagined.

   1999, Marine Technology and SNAME News - Volume 36, page 104

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   Certain fringe ecologists are quite as reversionist in their thinking, and reach even farther back for their image of the good life.

   1975, Alvin Toffler, The eco-spasm report, page 73

   Second, the movement sheds light on the nature of 'reversionist thought supported by the Japan Reversionist Movement' (NakanoandArasaki 1976:85)

   2003, Glen D. Hook, Richard Siddle, Japan and Okinawa: Structure and Subjectivity, →ISBN, page 437