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noun
- an action to recover personal property unlawfully taken; the writ or procedure of such action
verb - (transitive) to replevy
- 1998: Arranged about her are artificial flowers that appear in their varied pale and pastel colors to be faded from the sun. As if perhaps replevined from some desert grave. " Cormac McCarthy?, Cities of the Plain
Etymology: Anglo-Norman, from Old French replevir "recover", from re- + plevir (apparently from a Germanic word which was also the source of English pledge).
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