单词 | revertence |
释义 | revertencen. 1. Return or reversion to a state, theme, etc.; an instance of this. ΘΚΠ society > travel > aspects of travel > return > [noun] gaincome?c1225 retourc1330 gaincominga1340 again-cominga1382 returna1393 again-racea1400 returning?c1400 resortc1425 turningc1440 revertence?1457 repairingc1460 again-goinga1475 regress1478 revenuea1500 reversiona1500 back-coming1535 retire?1538 back-return1577 redition1595 regredience1648 reverter1663 epistrophe1814 ?1457 J. Hardyng Chron. (Lansd.) f. 58v, in Middle Eng. Dict. (at cited word) Thay prayd the kynge thay myght haue his lycense To Germany to make ther reuertence. 1828 Asiatic Researches 16 409 The subject may be dismissed in a few words, and will not need revertence to. 1840 T. J. Buckton W. Austral. i. 28 Here is no ‘squatting’, no revertence to semi-barbarism in desolate and uncleared wildernesses. 1915 J. E. Patterson His Father's Wife xxiv. 239 There was in Aaron's tone, and in his revertence to the subject, that which made his wife and son aware that more lay behind. 1999 J. G. Evans Land & Archaeol. 88 There may well have been a revertence to woodland husbandry. 2. Botany and Ecology. The reappearance of a species, community, or flora, or return to its dominance in an area in which its previous presence and subsequent disappearance is documented in the historical or palaeobotanical record. ΚΠ 1934 New Phytologist 33 336 All the sites show the ‘revertence’ of coniferous forest during the last phase of the post-Glacial forest history. 1967 S. Piggott et al. Agrarian Hist. Eng. & Wales ii. 27 (note) The wavy line indicates the revertence of Betula, previously thought to indicate the opening of the Sub-Atlantic period. 2000 Palaeogeogr., Palaeoclimatol., Palaeoecol. 205 83 The succession is suggestive of a slow climatic change and there is no revertence to a cold-climate flora as the interstadial progresses. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2010; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.?1457 |
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