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Reversionist

Definition: Reversionist

Reversionist

Noun

1. Someone who lapses into previous undesirable patterns of behavior.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 


Synonyms: Reversionist

Synonyms: backslider (n), recidivist (n). (additional references)

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Anagrams: Reversionist

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "e-e-i-i-n-o-r-r-s-s-t-v"

-1 letter: nervosities.

-2 letters: reversions, rotisserie, venosities.

-3 letters: eversions, inserters, interiors, inverters, invertors, investors, orneriest, ostensive, overstirs, overtires, overtness, reinserts, reinvests, reinvites, reorients, reservist, resistive, restriven, restrives, reversion, revisions, sensitive, serotines, servitors, sirventes, tirrivees.

-4 letters: essonite, estovers, estrones, eversion, evertors, inosites, inserter, insister, interior, introrse, inverses, inverter, invertor, investor, invitees, inviters, ironists, nerviest, niteries, noisiest, oestrins.

 Words containing the letters "e-e-i-i-n-o-r-r-s-s-t-v"
 

+1 letter: introgressive.

 

+2 letters: prerevisionist, reservationist.

 

+3 letters: antiprogressive, prerevisionists, preservationist, reservationists, tergiversations.

 

+4 letters: interconversions, overgenerosities, preservationists.

 

+5 letters: dorsiventralities, dorsoventralities, overprescriptions, revolutionariness.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: Reversionist


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

52 65 76 65 72 73 69 6F 6E 69 73 74

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

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Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

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