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verb

Repossess v. t.

To possess again; as, to repossess the land.

Specifically: To take possession of, for failure of the possessor to make payments owed for purchase of; used of real estate subject to mortgage payments and of other objects purchased on a time-payment plan, which may be taken back (repossessed) by the original vendor if the payments are not made on time.

To repossess one's self of (something), to acquire again (something lost).

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Etymology of 'Repossess'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Repossess" Quotes from Famous Books

... the English power. The regent concluded with saying, "that the Lords Loch-awe, Douglas, and Ruthven were come down from the Highlands with a multitudinous army, to drive out the Southron garrisons, and to repossess themselves of the fortresses of Stirling and Edinburgh. That Lord Bothwell had returned from France with the real Sir Thomas de Longueville, a knight of great valiancy. And that Sir Roger Kirkpatrick, after having massacred half the ...

— The Scottish Chiefs • Miss Jane Porter

... jeopardizing the victory of the Greeks. Considered as types of individual character, most of Homer's heroes are mere boys. It is the cause for which they fight that gives them dignity: embattled Greece must repossess the beauty which a lesser race has reft away from it. Even Helen herself is merely an idea to be fought for; she is not, as a woman, interesting humanly. It is only in infrequent passages, such as the scene of parting between Andromache and Hector, that ...

— A Manual of the Art of Fiction • Clayton Hamilton

... relaxed. She let Bishopriggs repossess himself of it as it dropped on the floor between them, without making ...

— Man and Wife • Wilkie Collins

... all incredible," she murmured at last, stooping to repossess herself of her fan; and as she moved past him to rejoin the group in the farther room, she added in an incisive undertone: "You are quite at liberty to repeat our conversation ...

— Madame de Treymes • Edith Wharton

... Constantine, and placed ourselves upon the throne. The said Irene, at her own request, we consigned to the place called the Island of Princes, setting her in charge of certain holy monks. Whilst there, abusing our mercy and confidence, she set on foot plots to murder our Person and repossess ...

— The Wanderer's Necklace • H. Rider Haggard

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