reversionist

One who clings to previous patterns of behavior or thought, rejecting social or cultural change.

The right-wing Reversionist focuses on a small town past where law, order and predictability prevail.

These reversionists think technology and industrialism are synonymous. They can't imagine clean technology, human technology.

One who has lost faith; a heathen, nonbeliever, or apostate.

But for the reversionist the indwelling of Christ has no effect.

The reality which is expected is the justice of God judging unbeliever reversionists, both Jews and Gentiles, and sending them to the Lake of Fire.

The person to whom a property reverts when a freehold expires.

As to the argument about the possibility of the reversionist not being capable of discharging his duties, that would equally apply to the granting a place for one life, as then the holder might live so long, or become so infirm as to be unable to fulfil all the duties of his situation.

If the particular species of clamour, to which we allude, has in some degree subsided, we doubt whether the cessateion of hostilities is so much to be ascribed to a full sense of its absurdity and wickedness, as to a growing consciousness that the lewd libidinous stare, directed against the jewels of the crown, would in time be transferred to wealth of a more substantial kind, and that the fund-holder and land-owner would come in for a share of that clamour which had hitherto been confined to the pensionist and the reversionist.

Pertaining to or characteristic of reversionists.

Certain fringe ecologists are quite as reversionist in their thinking, and reach even farther back for their image of the good life.

This confirms that the design process is more reversionist than might be imagined.