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Repossession   Listen
noun
Repossession  n.  The act or the state of possessing again.






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"Repossession" Quotes from Famous Books



... to manhood, returned to England at the Restoration, and finally, after much suing and delay, succeeded in obtaining repossession of his small paternal estate. Then, for many months, did he devote himself to a careful, but utterly unavailing, search about his property, vainly seeking along the lake-side and all round the big pond for the concealed valuables—but never finding aught but disappointment. ...
— Fifty-Two Stories For Girls • Various

... impression could continue sharply to discriminate. Before the subsequent passages, much later on, it was to be said, the flame of memory turned to an equalising glow, that of a lamp in some side-chapel in which incense was thick. The great moment, at any rate, for conscious repossession, was doubtless the first: the strange little timed silence which she had fully gauged, on the spot, as altogether beyond her own intention, but which—for just how long? should she ever really know for just how long?—she could do nothing to break. She ...
— The Golden Bowl • Henry James



Words linked to "Repossession" :   repossess, recovery, retrieval



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