单词 | repossessing |
释义 | repossessingn. The action of repossess v.; an instance of this. ΘΚΠ the mind > possession > acquisition > [noun] > back or again coveringc1230 restaurationa1398 recoverance1398 retrievingc1425 recoverc1430 readeption1471 recuperation1481 recovery1523 retiring1548 repossessing1576 regetting1585 recoverment1591 repossession1592 refetching1624 regainment1642 recooper1652 reattainment1661 reacquisition1719 revendication1760 retrievation1806 retrieve1853 regain1860 1576 A. Fleming tr. Cicero in Panoplie Epist. 30 To the obteining, & repossessing of all your renoune and substance, nothing, beside will, in you was wanting. 1633 T. Stafford Pacata Hibernia i. xii. 77 He would become an humble Suiter to the Lord Deputie (in his behalfe) for the repossessing thereof. 1814 Parl. Hist. Eng. XIX. 1363 Dissatisfied with their governors, and jealous of their new allies, the repossessing of America was still practicable. 1892 Harper's Mag. Apr. 683/2 The repossessing of the land by the plants and animals which had survived the terrible ordeal of glacial cold. 1934 J. B. Scott Spanish Origins Internat. Law ix.200 Extending the use of force..to the avenging of wrongs and the repossessing of property. 2003 M. Lehti in M. Lehti & D. J. Smith Post-Cold War Identity Politics i. 15 The blurring of the uniformity of the old East required a repossessing of what the East truly means. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2009; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1576 |
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