devolution

CEFRC1

/diːvəˈluːʃən/

noun

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A descent, especially one that passes through a series of revolutions, or by succession.
The transference of a right to a successor, or of a power from one body to another.
A rolling down.

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It is quite disheartening to witness the devolution of our nation's political discourse over the past several years.
The question of whether England should receive devolution like Scotland and Wales have has dogged British politics for years.
Governments like devolution because it gives ministers someone else to blame for problems.

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He is the place where the devolution from Heaven and the evolution from earth meet.
1981, William Irwin Thompson, The Time Falling Bodies Take to Light: Mythology, Sexuality and the Origins of Culture, London: Rider/Hutchinson & Co., page 186
Governments like devolution because it gives ministers someone else to blame for problems.
2020 November 4, Philip Haigh, “Cracks and divisions over funding for public transport”, in Rail, page 55
By the 1974 general election, the Scottish National Party (SNP) were polling at 30% and there were growing calls for devolution.
2021, Otto English, Fake History, page 179

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Borrowed from Middle French dévolution, from Medieval Latin devolutio, devolutionis, from Latin devolvo.