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repossess
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repossess v. to take back property through judicial processes, foreclosure, or self-help upon default in required payments.



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46) Homer's eternity, she reminds her contemporaries, centers round the striving wills of individuals and exists in the exalted tale of extraordinary deeds: "Homer asks no quarter, save from poetry, which repossesses beauty from death and wrests from it the secret of justice that history cannot fathom.
As a remedy under the lease, the lessor repossesses the truck with the intent to sell it to another party.
When di Prima swallows her own blood, after sex, she repossesses her sexual self lost to her from childhood, part of the "culture of childhood" whose loss Torgovnick mourns.
 
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