revertive

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

revert +‎ -ive

Adjective[edit]

revertive (comparative more revertive, superlative most revertive)

  1. Reverting, or tending to revert; returning.
    • 1727, James Thomson, A Poem to the Memory of Sir Isaac Newton:
      The tide revertive

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