Definition of "atavist" [atavist]

• A genetic characteristic emerging after absence from several generations. (noun)

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• "Your smug authorship style is intended to impart upon me that you know it all, I am just an atavist fool."
• "Conservatives are to busy going to work and making sinful profits to spend time at a conference to learn how to become a better online atavist."
• ""It's a mistake to think that privacy is an individualist or atavist right," Rotenberg said."