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plural replevins
(law) An action to recover personal property unlawfully taken, especially that seized by way of distraint; the writ or procedure of such action. examples
third-person singular simple present replevins, present participle replevining, simple past and past participle replevined
(transitive) To replevy. quotations examples
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.
1998, Cormac McCarthy, Cities of the Plain