revert, OED 4b

Wed Sep 29 18:06:50 UTC 2010

"To return; to come or go back....Now *rare*." The most recent ex. is from
1905.

Till now:

2008 Dennis Ford _The Search for Meaning_ (Berkeley: U. of C. P.) 15:
[W]e...willingly abdicate the burden of freedom by reverting to the
authority of others.

JL
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"If the truth is half as bad as I think it is, you can't handle the truth."

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