• Repass

    Pronunciation

    • UK IPA: /ɹiːˈpɑːs/

    Origin

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

    Full definition of repass

    Verb

    1. To pass (back) again, especially in the opposite direction; to return.
      • 1603, John Florio, translating Michel de Montaigne, Essays, Folio Society 2006, vol. 1, p. 221: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 ....
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