reversionary

American  

[ri-vur-zhuh-ner-ee, -shuh-] / rɪˈvɜr ʒəˌnɛr i, -ʃə- /

Also reversional

adjective

1. of, relating to, or involving a reversion.

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Etymology

Origin of reversionary

First recorded in 1645–55; reversion + -ary

Example Sentences

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

His incomes for life, his reversionary hopes, are knocked down to the speculator.

From Res Judicat? Papers and Essays by Birrell, Augustine

We'll repay him all that he advanced in cash to young Martin, and all that he won from him at play, if he surrender his reversionary claim.

From The Martins Of Cro' Martin, Vol. II (of II) by Lever, Charles James

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

It may be asked, had he a reversionary provision before the union was canonically effected?

From Irish Ecclesiastical Record, Volume 1, May 1865 by