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Reverting

noun

A failure to maintain a higher state. Synonyms: backsliding, lapse, lapsing, relapse, relapsing, reversion.

adjective

Tending to return to an earlier state. Synonym: returning.

Revert

verb

(past & past part. reverted; pres. part. reverting)

Go back to a previous state. Synonyms: regress, retrovert, return, turn back.

Undergo reversion, as in a mutation.

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"Reverting" Quotes from Famous Books

... expression proves that the mind awakens the instinctive response of the physical organism, while the other thinks that he can calculate that infinite harmony which makes unity of action, without reverting to the first cause of expression—the thought that created it. To reproduce the impulse born of the thought—this is the aim of a psychological method. This is secured only by right objects of thought; it is impossible to reach ...

— Expressive Voice Culture - Including the Emerson System • Jessie Eldridge Southwick

... In reverting to the period of our origin, other nations have generally been compelled to plunge into the chaos of impenetrable antiquity, or to trace a lawless ancestry into the caverns of ravishers and robbers. ...

— The World's Best Orations, Vol. 1 (of 10) • Various

... the old man, reverting to his dry sulky manner again. "There's eloquence! I suppose you ...

— News from Nowhere - or An Epoch of Rest, being some chapters from A Utopian Romance • William Morris

... were standing in the very centre of the vast dingy shed. Heavy-eyed, they looked about them with an unseeing, bewildered gaze, that kept reverting to each other. Marjorie had both her hands about one of Leonard's, and was holding it convulsively in the pocket of his great-coat. Many times she had pictured this last scene to herself, anticipating every detail. Even in these ...

— Four Days - The Story of a War Marriage • Hetty Hemenway

... activities, should produce a set of abstract images, monuments to lost intuitions, is a curious mystery. Nature gives her products life, and they are at least equal to their sources in dignity. Why should mind, the actualisation of nature's powers, produce something so inferior to itself, reverting in its expression to material being, so that its witnesses seem so many fossils with which it strews its path? What we call museums—mausoleums, rather, in which a dead art heaps up its remains—are those the places where the Muses ...

— The Life of Reason • George Santayana

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