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Definition of Devolutions
1. devolution [n] - See also: devolution
Lexicographical Neighbors of Devolutions
Literary usage of Devolutions
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The History of the Life of King Henry the Second, and of the Age in which He by Baron George Lyttelton Lyttelton (1769)
"... THE Devolutions -Or ENGLAND. they feem to have been -as common as Sequins are
... Devolutions ..."
2. The Works of Thomas Jackson, D.D. ...: Sometime President of Corpus Christi by Thomas Jackson (1844)
"The alternations or devolutions themselves may be numberless, save only to God ;
so may the degrees be of man's ..."
3. Fourteen Sermons Preach'd on Several Occasions: Together with a Large by Francis Atterbury (1708)
"... in the Devolutions of Government. SERMON Preach'd before the Honourable ...
Devolutions ..."
4. Summary of the Law of Intestate Succession in Scotland: With a Brief Outline by Peter Hay Cameron (1884)
"What Dispositions and Devolutions of Property confer Succession. ... (a) The part
of the section which relates to devolutions by law is not retrospective, ..."
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