All 4 Uses of
revert
in
Oliver Twist
- In great families, when an advantageous place cannot be obtained, either in possession, reversion, remainder, or expectancy, for the young man who is growing up, it is a very general custom to send him to sea.†
Chpt 4reversion = a return to a previous state
- AND IN WHICH THE NARRATIVE REVERTS TO THE MERRY OLD GENTLEMAN AND HIS YOUTHFUL FRIENDS†
Chpt 12 *reverts = goes back to a previous state
- CHAPTER XXV: WHEREIN THIS HISTORY REVERTS TO MR. FAGIN AND COMPANY†
Chpt 25
- Which, never failing to revert to his kind friends, and the opinion they must long ago have formed of him, were sad indeed.†
Chpt 18
Definitions:
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(1)
(revert as in: revert to childish ways) go back to a previous state
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(2)
(meaning too rare to warrant focus) meaning too rare to warrant focus:
Revert or reversion can also have a specialized meaning in the law with regard to property. Archaically, it can refer to physically turning away from something.