reversionary
Americanadjective
Etymology
Origin of reversionary
Example Sentences
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Those powers possessed extensive and valuable holdings in the West Indies and they were rivals for the reversionary title to these remaining Spanish Islands, Cuba and Porto Rico.
From The History of Cuba, vol. 2 by Johnson, Willis Fletcher
These latter variations, therefore, may fairly be regarded as reversionary.
From Darwin, and After Darwin (Vol. 1 and 3, of 3) An Exposition of the Darwinian Theory and a Discussion of Post-Darwinian Questions by Romanes, George John
For beside the promised dowry, she was heir to the reversionary interest in bonds and other properties worth about 12,000 scudi.
From The Old Yellow Book Source of Robert Browning's The Ring and the Book by Anonymous
They passed by reversionary lease to —— Brabazon, in 1546.
From Mellifont Abbey, Co. Louth Its Ruins and Associations, a Guide and Popular History by Anonymous
His incomes for life, his reversionary hopes, are knocked down to the speculator.
From Res Judicat? Papers and Essays by Birrell, Augustine
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