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plural devolutions
A rolling down. examples
A descent, especially one that passes through a series of revolutions, or by succession examples
The transference of a right to a successor, or of a power from one body to another. examples
(derogatory) Degeneration (as opposed to evolution). quotations examples
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
(government) The transfer of some powers and the delegation of some functions from a central government to local government (e.g. from the U.K. parliament to Scottish parliament and Welsh assembly). quotations examples
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