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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

... O you new Housholders, who have already possessed your selves of so many Pleasures in your marriage; and are now come just to the very entrance to repossess your selves of them over again; and perchance they'l never depart from you as long as you see the one day follow the other. Be not backward or negligent in relating your happiness to others; but if there be any distast or disaster that can happen in the married estate, lock it up in the very ...

— The Ten Pleasures of Marriage and The Confession of the New-married Couple (1682) • A. Marsh

... she paused in her act of opening the telegram and made a motion as if to repossess herself of this, but seeming to think better of it she confined herself to ...

— The Mayor's Wife • Anna Katharine Green

... place! O people! manners! framed to please All nations, customs, kindreds, languages! I am a free-born Roman; suffer then That I amongst you live a citizen. London my home is; though by hard fate sent Into a long and irksome banishment; Yet since call'd back, henceforward let me be, O native country, repossess'd by thee! For, rather than I'll to the west return, I'll beg of thee first here to have mine urn. Weak I am grown, and must in short time fall; Give thou my ...

— A Selection From The Lyrical Poems Of Robert Herrick • Robert Herrick

... absolute and tyrannical will. We have this enemy nearly prostrate under our feet, and we stand hesitating whether to avail ourselves of our advantage or to stultify ourselves at the tribunal of the world and of history, by allowing him to rise, to repossess himself of his arms, and to recommence the conflict upon terms of ...

— The Continental Monthly, Volume V. Issue I • Various

... are 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

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