repassion

English

Noun

repassion (uncountable)

1. (obsolete) The reception of an effect from one body to another.
   • 1860, Michael George Duignan, Positive Facts, Without a Shadow of Doubt:

     As it happens to fire, which by its efficacy fully compensates all repassion brought from the wood, so that, if fuel never fail, it is not diminished or extinguished; nay, rather as plenty of proportionate fuel increaseth, it is augmented.

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