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nonrevolution en · NOUN

Etymology

From non- + revolution.

Meanings

  1. (uncountable) Absence or failure of political revolution.
    • 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. 2007 September 30, Joseph Ellis, “Revolutionary Road”, in New York Times: