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The delegation of authority (especially from a central to a regional government)
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devolution
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Wiktionary
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n. 1 A rolling down. 2 A descent, especially one that passes through a series of revolutions, or by succession 3 The transference of a right to a successor, or of a power from one body to another. 4 (context pejorative English) degeneration (as opposed ...
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Devolution is the fourth full-length studio album from American crossover thrash band, M.O.D. It was released in 1994 on Music For Nations and follows 1992's Rhythm of Fear . Following the tradition of ever-changing line-ups, this album saw Milano swapping ...
WordNet
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n. the process of declining from a higher to a lower level of effective power or vitality or essential quality [syn: degeneration ] [ant: development ] the delegation of authority (especially from a central to a regional government) [syn: devolvement ]
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES ▪ Cronkite expressed surprise at the devolution of TV news into little more than soundbites. EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ However, devolution is already quite a commonplace activity in many educational establishments around the ...
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Devolution \Dev`o*lu"tion\, n. [LL. devolutio: cf. F. d['e]volution.] The act of rolling down. [R.] The devolution of earth down upon the valleys. --Woodward. Transference from one person to another; a passing or devolving upon a successor. The devolution ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1540s; see de- + evolution . Used in various legal and figurative senses; in biology, as the opposite of evolution , it is attested from 1882.
Usage examples of devolution.
In the secret sittings of the Committee Madier de Montjau, that firm and generous heart, De Flotte, brave and thoughtful, a fighting philosopher of the Devolution, Carnot, accurate, cold, tranquil, immovable, Jules Favre, eloquent, courageous, admirable through his simplicity and his strength, inexhaustible in resources as in sarcasms, doubled, by combining them, the diverse powers of their minds.
The lowest brain as a point of devolution would be the primal brain: the hypothalamic brain.
And those regressives who killed for the primal thrill of blood sport were the worst of all psychotics who had chosen devolution over evolution.
It chronicled her cock-tailed devolution from Delaware insecticide heiress elegantly tamping shreds of hard-boiled egg onto crustless toast triangles, loving the attention, then shamelessly hamming it up, becoming a haggard mal vivant gurgling fragments of sea shanties into the pipes beneath the kitchen sink.
Also entries in the anthro files under genocide, slavery, cultural pathology, xenophobia and societal devolution.
What at one stage is worshiped and identified with becomes at the next stage precisely that which must be transcended, fought, and differentiated from: the God of one becomes the Devil of the next, becomes a reminder of what we once were and should not slide back into, that slide being "sin," devolution, regression, retreat.