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What is the noun for atavistically?

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atavism
  1. The reappearance of an ancestral characteristic in an organism after several generations of absence.
  2. The recurrence or reversion to a past behaviour, method, characteristic or style after a long period of absence.
  3. (sociology) Reversion to past primitive behavior, especially violence.
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    1. “Certain people, no doubt through historical atavism, would like to turn them into an inquisition process.”
      “Yugoslavia seems to have lapsed into a type of atavism, at odds with the intended political direction of the new Europe.”
      “Today, such loose-leaf is the atavism that disrupts all those bureaucratic workflows that are allegedly already electronic.”
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