repass
Pronunciation
  • (British) IPA: /ɹiːˈpɑːs/
Verb

repass (repasses, present participle repassing; past and past participle repassed)

  1. To pass (back) again, especially in the opposite direction; to return.
    • 1603, Michel de Montaigne, John Florio, transl., The Essayes, […], printed at London: By Val[entine] Simmes for Edward Blount […], OCLC 946730821 ↗:
      , 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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