Crossword-Solution: REVERSIONS
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| Clue | Answers |
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| Atavistic traits. | 1 answer |
| Returns, as to former habits. | 1 answer |
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Hint 1 meaning
A moving of the mind or soul; excitement of the feelings,
whether pleasing or painful; disturbance or agitation of mind caused by
a specific exciting cause and manifested by some sensible effect on the
body.
Hint 2 anagram
OINTMOE
Hint 3 another clue
A FEELING OF GREAT ELATION
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Sentences with REVERSIONS (5)
Departures from the human nature of the hereditary present are most frequently of the nature of reversions to an earlier variant of the type.
The leisure class is in some degree sheltered from the stress of the industrial situation, and should, therefore, afford an exceptionally great proportion of reversions to the peaceable or savage temperament.
But it may still be doubtful whether these facts are evidence of a larger proportion of reversions in the higher than in the lower strata, even if the same inclinations were present in the impecunious classes, it would not as easily find expression there; since those classes lack the means and the time and energy to give effect to their inclinations in this respect.
Ritualistic survivals and reversions come out in fullest vigor and with the freest air of spontaneity among those seminaries of learning which have to do primarily with the education of the priestly and leisure classes.
Reversions, or atavistic changes, would seem to give a better support to the theory of descent through modifications.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: NYT.
Used 2 times in crossword archives (1961–1969).