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Devolution   /dˌɛvəlˈuʃən/   Listen
Devolution

noun
1.
The process of declining from a higher to a lower level of effective power or vitality or essential quality.  Synonym: degeneration.
2.
The delegation of authority (especially from a central to a regional government).  Synonym: devolvement.





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"Devolution" Quotes from Famous Books



... country bear in proportion to their increase in size a corresponding increase and burden of taxation. The Government has the absolute right to decide as to the terms upon which a man shall receive a bequest or devise from another, and this point in the devolution of property is especially appropriate for the imposition of a tax. Laws imposing such taxes have repeatedly been placed upon the National statute books and as repeatedly declared constitutional by the courts; and these laws contained the progressive principle, that is, after a certain ...
— Complete State of the Union Addresses from 1790 to the Present • Various
... brother Theophilus. But when on the fourth day letters came to him, which informed him of the death of Tiberius, he obliged the multitude to take an oath of fidelity to Caius; he also recalled his army, and made them every one go home, and take their winter quarters there, since, upon the devolution of the empire upon Caius, he had not the like authority of making this war which he had before. It was also reported, that when Aretas heard of the coming of Vitellius to fight him, he said, upon his consulting the diviners, that it was impossible that this army of Vitellius's could ...
— The Antiquities of the Jews • Flavius Josephus


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