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devolve Verb [-volving, -volved] to pass or cause to pass to a successor or substitute, as duties or power [Latin devolvere to roll down]
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| The important task would probably devolve on men, who, with inferior capacities, would in other respects be little better qualified. There were not Romolas to read all the time, though, and I had to devolve upon inferior authors for my fiction the greater part of the time. The Allens, he believed, had lived near them too long, and he knew the young man on whom the Fullerton estate must devolve. |
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