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Definition of Devolutionary
1. [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Devolutionary
Literary usage of Devolutionary
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The New European Diasporas: National Minorities and Conflict in Eastern Europe by Michael Mandelbaum (2000)
"... and which is confederal or otherwise devolutionary in structure, and a unitary
system in which the minority's cultural rights are codified in the ..."
2. The Laryngoscope by American Laryngological, Rhinological, and Otological Society (1908)
"The particular devolutionary process by which the nasal region fails of development
need not detain us, because this process has been formulated ..."
3. The Dublin Journal of Medical Science (1906)
"One of the pregnant signs of the times, however, in this revolutionary and
democratic—if sometimes devolutionary and, perhaps, even retrograde—generation is ..."
4. Electricity: What is It? by W. Denham Verschoyle (1908)
"This is then a simple devolutionary process, and is absolutely distinct from the
other. If then devolution may be considered as due to decrease of internal ..."
5. A History of the Inquisition of Spain by Henry Charles Lea (1906)
"... that they were merely devolutionary—that is, that sentences, in spite of them,
were to be promptly executed, thus practically rendering them useless.5 ..."
6. My Diaries: Being a Personal Narrative of Events, 1888-1914 by Wilfrid Scawen Blunt (1921)
"... on a correspondence in his own handwriting with one of his friends, principally
on Irish politics, of which he has found a new devolutionary solution. ..."
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