Nonrevolution
noun
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Definitions
Noun
- 1 Absence or failure of political revolution. uncountable
"Winik’s second story line, which advances a more unconventional claim, is that the revolutions in America and France, and the nonrevolution or reaction in Russia, were all of a piece, that they represented different enactments of the same overarching plot."
Example
More examples"Winik’s second story line, which advances a more unconventional claim, is that the revolutions in America and France, and the nonrevolution or reaction in Russia, were all of a piece, that they represented different enactments of the same overarching plot."
Etymology
From non- + revolution.
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