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devolution n. the transfer of rights, powers, or an office (public or private) from one person or government to another. (See: devolve) DEVOLUTION, eccl. law. The transfer, by forfeiture, of a right and power which a person has to another, on account of some act or negligence of the person who is vested with such right or power: for example, when a person has the right of preseptation, and he does not present within the time prescribed, the right devolves on his next immediate superior. Ayl. Par. 331. |
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As I will explain, Brown used his early texts to create male and female heroic bodies that could take their proper places within an evolutionary, linear narrative of black historical progress, a narrative designed to combat the devolutionary temporal narratives that would preclude blacks from inhabiting national space. Apocalyptic was the term applied by nineteenth-century German biblical scholars to writings that describe what in their estimation was a quick, accelerating, devolutionary demise of a certain segment of society. The Eightieth Amendment to the Constitution introduced its recommendation, though it reduced the proposed devolutionary share of 29 percent to 26 percent. |
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