Nonrevolution

noun

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Definitions

Noun
  1. 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."

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"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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