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Revolution

noun

A drastic and far-reaching change in ways of thinking and behaving.

The overthrow of a government by those who are governed.

A single complete turn (axial or orbital). Synonyms: gyration, rotation. "The revolution of the earth about the sun takes one year"

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"Revolution" Quotes from Famous Books

... laughed out of England for a time. In France the revolution left men no leisure for studying it. The Societes de l'Harmonie of Strasbourg, and other great towns lingered for a while, till sterner matters occupying men's attention, they were one after the ...

— Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds • Charles Mackay

... sent to Paris were too serviceable to Louis Napoleon to be left in obscurity; and these brutish village-outbreaks, which collapsed at the first appearance of a handful of soldiers, were represented as the prelude to a vast Socialist revolution from which the coup d'etat, and that alone, had saved France. Terrified by the re-appearance of the Red Spectre, the French nation proceeded on the 20th of December to pass its judgment on the accomplished usurpation. The question submitted for the plebiscite was, whether the people ...

— History of Modern Europe 1792-1878 • C. A. Fyffe

... mile that singular chase continued through the night. With every revolution of the screw, the banks to right and left seemed to recede, as the Thames grew wider and wider. A faint saltiness was perceptible in the air; and Stringer, moistening his dry ...

— The Yellow Claw • Sax Rohmer

... the hips, the greater length of the phase of rest in relation to the phase of motion, and by the fact that the compensatory movements of the upper parts of the body are less powerfully supported by the action of the arms and more by the revolution of the flanks. A man's walk has a more pushing and active character, a woman's a more rolling and passive character; while a man seems to seek to catch his fleeing equilibrium, a woman seems to seek to preserve the equilibrium she has reached.... ...

— Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 4 (of 6) • Havelock Ellis

... of quiet happiness which has for its companions good-will and delicate sympathy. To sever oneself from such converse is to induce selfishness, boorishness (veneered or un-veneered), and inhumanity. The influence of nature means development; the lack of that influence means revolution. ...

— Nature Mysticism • J. Edward Mercer

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