repass

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UK/ɹiːˈpɑːs/

verb

To pass (back) again, especially in the opposite direction; to return.

OriginAnglo-Norman repasser →
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Meanings

verbrepass (third-person singular simple present repasses, present participle repassing, simple past and past participle repassed)

present singular third person repasses · participle present repassing · participle past repassed · past repassed

  1. To pass (back) again, especially in the opposite direction; to return.

    Isabell Queene of England, being to repasse from Zeland into her Kingdome with an armie, […] had utterly beene cast away, had she come unto the Port intended […].

    , Folio Society, 2006, vol.1, p.221
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    the grate of brass Through which they thrust me, open stood the while, […] The grate, as they departed to repass, With horrid clangour fell, and the far sound Of their retiring steps in the dense gloom was drowned.

    1817 December, Percy Bysshe Shelley, “The Revolt of Islam. […]”, in [Mary] Shelley, editor, The Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley. […], volume I, London: Edward Moxon […], published 1839, →OCLC, page 211

Origin

  1. Anglo-Normanrepasser
  2. Englishrepass

Partly from Anglo-Norman repasser, partly from re- + pass.

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APA

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Chicago

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