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Definitions
a reappearance of an earlier characteristic
Word origin
Borrowed from French atavisme.. By surface analysis, at- (“to”) + Latin av(us) (“grandfather, ancestor”) + -ism. Compare ancestorism.
Used in a sentence
“He was a magnificent atavism, a man so purely primitive that he was of the type that came into the world before the development of the moral nature. He was not immoral, but merely unmoral.”
“Hence on false premises was built up that belief in spirits or invisible beings outside ourselves, which by some curious atavism was re-emerging in modern days among the less educated strata of mankind.”
“I have even read in a book of criminology that the tramp is an atavism, a throw-back to the nomadic stage of humanity.”
Source: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0
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