Sentence example with the word 'atavism'

atavism

aboriginality, antiquity, disk memory, emotional response, information storage, memory circuit, old style, race memory, remembrance, screen memory, tape memory

Definition n. a reappearance of an earlier characteristic

Last update: October 22, 2015


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I would deal in especial with atavism.   [Please select]

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ATAVISM (from Lat.   [Please select]

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"Oh, yes, you are a case of atavism, no doubt."   [Please select]

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--And to repeat it again: vanity is an atavism.   [Please select]

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He was white and sick and muttered something about atavism.   [Please select]

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Atavism is mysteriously powerful in dogs, and it takes strange forms.   [Please select]

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Yet when his spell is upon us we lapse back by a sort of atavism into primal savagery and shudder with a recrudescence of long forgotten fears.   [Please select]

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That which an age considers evil is usually an unseasonable echo of what was formerly considered good--the atavism of an old ideal.   [Please select]

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