atavism
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Atavism Last week a loud noise was heard in the Rocky Mountains.
From Time Magazine Archive
Atavism is inadmissible; and fright is the thinnest and most unscientific subterfuge extant.
From Such Is Life by Furphy, Joseph
Atavism, at′av-izm, n. frequent appearance of ancestral, but not parental, characteristics in an animal or plant: reversion to an original type.—adj.
From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 1 of 4: A-D) by Various
Then she read "Atavism," and her little highly bred face looked savage!
From Man and Maid by Glyn, Elinor
You of your Earth have reverted or degenerated to a primordial condition or state through the law of Atavism.
From The Planet Mars and Its Inhabitants, a psychic revelation by Kennon, J. L.
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