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Partly from Anglo-Norman repasser, partly from re- +‎ pass.

repass (third-person singular simple present repasses, present participle repassing, simple past and past participle repassed)

  1. To pass (back) again, especially in the opposite direction; to return.
    • , 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 […].
    • 1817 December, Percy Bysshe Shelley, “The Revolt of Islam. […]”, in [Mary] Shelley, editor, The Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley. […], volume I, London: Edward Moxon […], published 1839, →OCLC, page 211:
      the grate of brass
      Through which they thrust me, open stood the while, […]
      The grate, as they departed to repass,
      With horrid clangour fell, and the far sound
      Of their retiring steps in the dense gloom was drowned.