Bible Dictionaries
Reversal

Webster's Dictionary

(1):

(n.) A change or overthrowing; as, the reversal of a judgment, which amounts to an official declaration that it is false; the reversal of an attainder, or of an outlawry, by which the sentence is rendered void.

(2):

(n.) The act of reversing; the causing to move or face in an opposite direction, or to stand or lie in an inverted position; as, the reversal of a rotating wheel; the reversal of objects by a convex lens.

(3):

(a.) Intended to reverse; implying reversal.

Bibliography Information
Webster, Noah. Entry for 'Reversal'. Noah Webster's American Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/​dictionaries/​eng/​web/​r/reversal.html. 1828.