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repass en · VERB

Pronunciation

• /ɹiːˈpɑːs/ (UK)

Etymology

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

Meanings

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