Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The state, act, or principle of revolving; revolution.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun Archaic The act or state of revolving; revolution.
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- noun archaic The act or state of
revolving ;revolution .
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Examples
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He was a singular man in all respects; he might not have been quite in earnest, but that the short, hard, rapid manner in which he shot out these cinders of principles, as if it were done by mechanical revolvency, seemed irreconcilable with banter.
Little Dorrit 2007
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He was a singular man in all respects; he might not have been quite in earnest, but that the short, hard, rapid manner in which he shot out these cinders of principles, as if it were done by mechanical revolvency, seemed irreconcilable with banter.
Little Dorrit Charles Dickens 1841
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