reprieven.

Brit.

/rᵻˈpriːv/, U.S.

/rəˈpriv/,

/riˈpriv/

Forms:

α. 1500s–1600s repriue, 1600s reprive, 1600s repryue.

β. 1500s–1600s repreeue, 1600s repreeve, 1600s repreiue, 1600s repreive, 1600s repriefe, 1600s reprieue, 1600s– reprieve, 1700s–1800s reprief.

Origin: Formed within English, by conversion. Etymon: reprieve v.

Etymology: < reprieve v. Compare slightly earlier reprieval n., reprivation n.

a. The action of reprieving a person from an impending penalty or punishment, esp. execution; the fact or right of being reprieved in this way. Frequently without reprieve.

ΘΚΠ

society > law > administration of justice > court proceedings or procedure > judging > sentencing > [noun] > execution of judgement > reprieve, remission, or release from penalty > action or fact of

reprieve1592

1592 T. Nashe Strange Newes sig. G2^v Had Phisition Iohn liu'd,..a sinode of Pispots would haue concluded, that Pierce Pennilesse should be confounded without repriue.

1599 T. Heywood 2nd Pt. King Edward IV sig. L4 Can it not be deferd till after noone. Or but two houres, in hope to get repriue?

a1616 W. Shakespeare Coriolanus (1623) v. ii. 51 You are condemn'd, our Generall has sworne you out of repreeue and pardon.

a1627 T. Middleton & W. Rowley Spanish Gipsie (1653) v. sig. I2^v Promise mee you will get Repreeve For the condemned Man.

1671 J. Milton Samson Agonistes 288 So many dy'd Without Reprieve adjudg'd to death, For want of well pronouncing Shibboleth.

1733 H. Fielding Miser (London ed.) iv. xii. 64 Sign the Contract; so now, Sir, you are ruined without Reprieve.

1758 J. Reed Madrigal & Trulletta ii. iv. 21 Despairing of reprieve..and nobly scorning to be dragg'd A publick spectacle up Holborn Hill.

1827 Amer. Jrnl. Sci. 61 The penalty of violation is dismissal, without reprieve, from a very desirable service.

1862 W. Howitt Cassell's Illustr. Hist. Eng. VI. ii. 48 The plea for appeal was therefore dismissed, and the next day was appointed to consider the question of reprieve.

1931 ‘R. West’ Ending in Earnest 59 He writes of a German Socialist, sentenced to death for participation in the post-war revolution and reprieved, coming out of the lunatic asylum where he has been for eight years, ever since the shock of reprieve unsettled his reason.

1954 P. Frankau Wreath for Enemy iii. v. 215 According to the Duchess, people who say ‘Guess how much this cost’ should be eliminated from one's visiting-list without reprieve.

1993 S. M. Elkins & E. L. McKitrick Age of Federalism viii. 328 After the verdict of death was voted by the narrowest of margins, Paine made a final plea for reprieve.

b. A suspension or (later) a commutation of a death sentence; a remission or a cancellation of any punishment or penalty.

ΘΚΠ

society > law > administration of justice > court proceedings or procedure > judging > sentencing > [noun] > execution of judgement > reprieve, remission, or release from penalty

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1594 T. Nashe Terrors of Night sig. Fiij To nothing can I compare it [sc. a consumption] better, than to a repriue after aman [sic] is condemnd.

1602 W. Shakespeare Merry Wives of Windsor ii. ii. 8 I haue grated vpon my good friends for 3. repriues, for you and your Coach-fellow Nym.

a1680 S. Butler Genuine Remains (1759) I. 210 Like Princes had Prerogative to give Convicted Malefactors a Reprieve.

1722 D. Defoe Moll Flanders 213 The young Offender was spar'd, having obtain'd a Reprieve.

1789 Constit. U.S. ii. §2 The president shall have power to grant reprieves and pardons for offences against the United States.

1843 C. J. Lever Jack Hinton xxii. 152 Like the felon, that feels there is no chance of a reprieve, I could look my fate more steadily in the face.

1874 L. Stephen Hours in Libr. 1st Ser. 342 A reprieve is granted at the last moment, and the martyr is unbound from the stake.

1921 Blackwood's Mag. Dec. 725/2 A nurse..gained a reprieve through consenting to act as spy for the Chay-Ka.

1948 ‘J. Tey’ Franchise Affair xix. 227 A last-minute reprieve with the rope round the hero's neck?

1996 G. Linscott Dead Man's Music (1997) xxi. 242 It was two days before we knew for certain that a reprieve had been granted, that Davie Kendal wouldn't hang.

c. A warrant granting or authorizing the suspension or cancellation of a death sentence. Now chiefly historical.

ΘΚΠ

society > law > administration of justice > process, writ, warrant, or order > [noun] > warrant > types of warrant

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1602 W. S. True Chron. Hist. Ld. Cromwell sig. G3 Here is a kinde repriue come from the king, To bring him straight vnto his maiestie.

?a1640 J. Day & H. Chettle Blind-beggar (1659) iii. sig. F Let your Rogueship understand, that this reprieve is counterfeit and made by me.

1703 Clarendon's Hist. Rebellion II. viii. 477 The very Morning, that S^r John Hotham was to dye, a Reprieve was sent from the House of Peers to suspend his execution for three days.

1759 Ann. Reg. 1758 i. 100/2 A reprieve was brought to Newgate for Dr. Hensey, respiting his sentence for a fortnight.

1781 E. Gibbon Decline & Fall II. xix. 136 The second messenger entrusted with the reprieve, was detained by the eunuchs.

1821 Ld. Byron Marino Faliero (2nd issue) i. i. 6 The ducal table, cover'd o'er With..Despatches, judgments, acts, reprieves, reports.

1841 Penny Cycl. XIX. 403/2 If the reprieve is sent by the secretary of state, it is under the sign manual of the king.

1911 W. R. Thayer Life & Times Cavour viii. 193 A messenger brought a reprieve for Agresti and Settembrini, but the hour of execution had almost struck.

1955 C. Carmer Susquehanna xix. 278 The sheriff, after placing the noose about the prisoner's neck, apologetically stated that the morning's rider had brought a reprieve from the governor.

2000 Austin (Texas) Amer.-Statesman (Nexis) 2 June a1 (caption) Sen. Rodney Ellis: Houston Democrat, who was acting in governor's absence, signed the reprieve.

2. The time during which a person is reprieved from execution, punishment, etc., or enjoys a relief from illness; a period of respite or remission.

ΘΚΠ

society > law > administration of justice > court proceedings or procedure > judging > sentencing > [noun] > execution of judgement > reprieve, remission, or release from penalty > time during which

reprievea1616

a1616 W. Shakespeare Measure for Measure (1623) ii. iv. 39 That in his Reprieue (Longer, or shorter) he may be so fitted That his soule sicken not.

1763 A. Sutherland Attempts Antient Med. Doctr. I. 344 The symptoms abated, he recovered strength. During this reprieve I ordered him to take two drachms of nitre thrice a day, in a large glass of Bath-water.

1823 tr. Marchioness de Bonchamps Mem. 132 A short time previous to my obtaining my pardon, and during the reprieve, the country-people in whose care I had left my daughter, sent her back to me.

1852 T. Lewis Lives of Friends & Contemp. of Clarendon II. ii. 314 Her health having been tolerably restored during this last reprieve, despair gave her strength to perform the enterprise she had resolved to attempt.

1924 Middlesboro (Kentucky) Daily News 13 Sept. 1/3 Krauser once ‘took a walk’ to the death cell, but was granted an extension of time just five hours before the trap was to be sprung. The appeal he made during that reprieve still is pending.

a1969 J. Kerouac Visions of Cody (1992) 76 Where pinochle at a busted dusty rolltop desk consumed thirty-six hours of their fevered reprieve.

1999 Gettysburg (Pa.) Times 2 June a7/1 Social Security and Medicare are hard-pressed to support these extra years on Earth, and physicians cannot guarantee our quality of life during the reprieve.

a. A postponement (natural or otherwise) of a person or animal's death; respite or temporary escape from death.

ΘΚΠ

the world > life > death > [noun] > respite from

reprievea1631

a1631 J. Donne XXVI. Serm. (1661) x. 143 Yea it is not here only that they shall perish, in the future; that were a repreive; it were a stalling of a debt.

a1634 W. Austin Devotionis Augustinianæ Flamma (1635) 276 Hee..was made an end of. And so must all men, be the time of their Reprieve never so long.

1712 R. Steele Spectator No. 498. ⁋2 If you would but bestow a little of your wholesome Advice upon our Coachmen, it might perhaps be a Reprieve to some of their Necks.

1784 S. Johnson Let. 20 Mar. (1994) IV. 293 God has in his mercy granted me a reprieve, for how much time his mercy must determine.

1816 W. Scott Antiquary I. vii. 164 The sense of reprieve from approaching and apparently inevitable death, had its usual effect.

1870 W. C. Bryant tr. Homer Iliad I. v. 161 With those who flee Is neither glory nor reprieve from death.

1911 Times 2 Jan. 4/6 The rest will find it harder..to claim any further reprieve from the common fate of man and beast. There are animals here that died before the oldest of men were born.

1986 Daily Mail 20 Aug. 10/5 No matter how dashing a bit of pedigree porkflesh becomes, there is no reprieve from the eventual appointment at the abattoir.

2001 R. Ludlum Sigma Protocol 609 In essence, we've been given our lives back. Not our youth so much as—as another chance. A reprieve from death.

b. A respite or temporary escape from an unpleasant or undesirable situation; temporary relief from pain, illness, difficulty, etc.

ΘΚΠ

the world > action or operation > safety > escape > [noun] > temporary, from trouble or calamity

reprievala1586

reprieve1635

1635 F. Quarles Emblemes iv. xiv. 238 I search'd the Shades of Sleepe, to ease my day Of griping sorrowes with a nights repriefe.

1655 T. Fuller Church-hist. Brit. i. 39 Perceiving his Countrey condemned by Gods Justice to Ruine, he could procure a Reprieve, though not prevail for the Pardon thereof.

1733 G. Cheyne Eng. Malady ii. ix. 206 It is absolutely necessary..to gain a Reprieve, from these Symptoms.

1782 F. Burney Cecilia III. v. iv. 59 Cecilia..contrived..to keep her maid in the room. Miss Belfield, supposing this to be accidental, rejoiced in her imaginary reprieve.

1821 J. Clare Village Minstrel I. 133 The moth, for night's reprief, Waited safe and snug withal 'Neath the plantain's bowery leaf.

1851 ‘L. Mariotti’ Italy in 1848 381 The people..were only allowed a choice between the instant surrender of their rights, and a short reprieve, which entitled them to call themselves their own masters till the end of the war.

1929 J. H. Dunham Princ. Ethics viii. 271 Parental affection..finds in this proposal of marriage a reprieve from social condemnation.

1972 ‘G. Black’ Bitter Tea (1973) ix. 139 I sat like a man coming from dental extractions under Novocaine, given a time of numb reprieve before the pain flared.

1990 E. Harth Dawn of Millennium (1991) x. 162 The military edge high technology confers on its creators is but a temporary reprieve.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2009; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

reprievev.

Brit.

/rᵻˈpriːv/, U.S.

/rəˈpriv/,

/riˈpriv/

Forms:

α. 1500s reprie, 1500s repry.

β. 1500s–1600s repriue, 1500s–1600s repryue, 1500s–1600s repryve, 1600s–1700s reprive.

γ. 1500s–1600s repreue, 1500s–1600s repreve, 1500s–1600s reprieue, 1500s– reprieve, 1600s repreeue, 1600s repreeve, 1600s repreiue.

Origin: Apparently a borrowing from French. Etymons: French repris, reprendre.

Etymology: Apparently originally (in α. forms) irregularly < Anglo-Norman and Middle French repris, past participle of reprendre (see reprise v.). The final consonant of the β. and γ. forms is perhaps by association with prive v. or deprive v. The unexpected vowel of the γ. forms could perhaps be explained by analogy with the variation shown e.g. at relieve v., which conversely shows unexpected relive (see β. forms at that entry) beside expected relieve (see α. forms; see further E. J. Dobson Eng. Pronunc. 1500–1700 (ed. 2, 1968) II. §136 note 1). Perhaps compare also α. forms at reprove v.¹, and compare Dict. Older Sc. Tongue at unreprevit for uses of prefixed forms of β. forms and α. forms of reprove v.¹ in the sense ‘without remission or reprieve’. Compare earlier reprise v.

†1.

a. transitive. To take or send back (a prisoner) to prison; to remand or detain on remand. Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

society > law > administration of justice > general proceedings > arrest > [verb (transitive)] > commit to custody > recommit to custody

remit1414

reprievea1513

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α.

a1513 R. Fabyan New Cronycles Eng. & Fraunce (1516) II. f. ccxxix^v [They] were brought vnto Guyldehalle and there areygned, But the sayd Turbyruyle was repryd to pryson.

a1513 R. Fabyan New Cronycles Eng. & Fraunce (1516) II. f. lxvi^v They were repryed, and sent vnto the Toure of London, where they remayned longe after.

1542–3 Act 34 & 35 Henry VIII c. 27 §84 The said Iustices..maie reprie the prisoner, til they haue aduertised the Kinges maiestie of the matter.

1556 J. Heywood Spider & Flie lxxviii. 158 Whervpon they repryede me to prison cheynde.

1588 W. Lambarde Eirenarcha (new ed.) iv. xiv. 563 Iustice Welsh thought it meete to reprie the prisoner, without giuing judgement upon him.

β. 1567 W. Painter Palace of Pleasure II. xv. f. 105 To be repriued in sharpe and cruell prison.c1571 E. Campion Two Bks. Hist. Ireland (1963) ii. ix. 126 Of this treason he was founde giltye and repryved in the Tower a longe tyme.1577 R. Holinshed Chron. II. 1580/1 His Monkes garment was plucked from his backe, and he repriued [Hall repried] till the king were enformed of his malicious obstinacie.1622 J. Hagthorpe Divine Medit. xxvi. 51 The wretch repriu'd prouokes not's Iudge, but rather Striues to be reguler, to win more fauour.

b. transitive. To remit for trial. Obsolete. rare.

ΘΚΠ

society > law > administration of justice > general proceedings > arrest > [verb (transitive)] > commit to custody > commit for trial

reprieve1556

refera1675

fully1846

1556 J. Heywood Spider & Flie xxiv The faughter..apealth to be repride, From London to Louane, there to be tride.

†2. transitive. To postpone, delay, put off. Also intransitive. Obsolete.Frequently of a legal judgment; cf. sense 3.

ΘΚΠ

the world > time > a suitable time or opportunity > untimeliness > delay or postponement > delay [verb (transitive)]

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α.

1548 T. Cooper Bibliotheca Eliotæ (rev. ed.) at Amplio To deferre or delai a thyng in iugement, to repry.

β. 1601 A. Munday Downfall Earle of Huntington sig. B3 You to my griefe adde griefe, and are agreed With that false Prior, to repriue my ioyes From execution of all happinesse.1630 T. May Contin. Lucan vii. 533 Not one dayes absence can preuent, Nor scarce repriue my Fate.a1635 T. Randolph Poems (1652) 48 Children though great blessings, onely be Pleasures repriv'd to some posterity.γ. 1567 R. Mulcaster tr. J. Fortescue Learned Commendation Lawes Eng. f. 127^v It was in the Judges power to haue reprieued or respected the womans arreignment til the end of the yere.1629 J. Ford Lovers Melancholy i. 7 I repriev'd Th' intended execution with intreaties And interruption.1664 K. Philips Death v, in Poems 233 Since we cannot Death reprieve, Our Souls and Fame we ought to mind.1782 E. Pendleton Let. 29 Oct. in Lett. & Papers (1967) II. 424 The Treason law has very properly impowered the Executive to reprieve until the meeting of the Assembly.1868 Proc. & Deb. Constit. Convent. State N.Y. 5 3618/1 The..next session of the Legislature, when he shall report the case for their action, which shall be conclusive to pardon, commute, reprieve or divert its execution.

a. transitive. To grant a respite to (a person) from impending punishment; esp. to suspend the execution of (a condemned person). Later also: to commute the death sentence of (a person).

ΘΚΠ

society > authority > punishment > capital punishment > execute [verb (transitive)] > delay or suspend execution

reprieve1552

α.

1552 R. Huloet Abcedarium Anglico Latinum at Differ To repry one condempned to death.

β. 1572 J. Higgins Huloets Dict. (rev. ed.) at Differ To repryue one that is condemned to death.1578 G. Whetstone Promos & Cassandra: 2nd Pt. v. v. M ii Andrugio lyues: and Promos is repriu'd.1596 E. Spenser Second Pt. Faerie Queene iv. xii. sig. M2^v I humbly craue your Maiestie, It to repleuie, and my sonne repriue . 1600 T. Dekker Old Fortunatus sig. L1 Vntie their bands, Vice doth repriue you both, I set you free.1630 J. Lane Contin. Squire's Tale (Ashm. 53) (1888) i. viii. 134 So maie wee doe and live, woold Algarsive and his state setters, all vs thus reprive.1655 in C. H. Firth Clarke Papers (1899) III. 38 Three executed at Salisbury, the rest reprived and pardoned.1712 R. Hall Hist. Barbarous Cruelties & Massacres i. 74 Which were Repriv'd after Condemnation.1781 View N. Amer. viii. 179 Next morning, however, to his inexpressible joy, instead of being executed, he was reprived.γ. 1600 Looke about You sig. F 4 Is he repreiued then?1629 F. Quarles Argalus & Parthenia ii. 54 Here's none that can reprieue Such pounded beasts.1642 Execution of Thomas Bullaker sig. A4^v The names and Facts of the Prisoners condemned this last Session: who were reprieved, and who executed.1695 R. Blackmore Prince Arthur i. 15 Her Power can sentenc'd Criminals Reprieve.1734 Select Trials Old-Bailey I. 7/2 He receiv'd Sentence of Death; but was afterwards reprieved.1755 J. Willison Sacramental Directory (ed. 4) iii. 247 Thou hadst been roring in Hell at this Hour, if free Grace had not repriv'd thee.1785 V. Lunardi Acct. Second Aerial Voy. Eng. 18 A Pleasure equal to that of a condemned Malefactor who is reprieved at the Place of Execution!1809 E. A. Kendall Trav. Northern Parts U.S. I. 21 He may reprieve a condemned malefactor till the next meeting of the general assembly; but he can grant no pardon.1867 Times 1 Jan. 9 The Hokitiki murderers have all been executed, except Sullivan, the approver, who was reprieved and had his sentence commuted to life imprisonment.1892 I. Zangwill Big Bow Myst. 180 ‘Pending further inquiries into this,’ said the Home Secretary,..‘I have reprieved the prisoner.’1927 Amer. Mercury Nov. 305/1 The condemned men should be reprieved until after the crops are all in.1960 G. F. Hudson in J. P. Bury Zenith European Power, 1830–1870 (1964) xxvi. 690 Kishen was sent in chains to Peking and condemned to death (though he was reprieved and later pardoned).1997 G. Hosking Russia (1998) iii. vii. 304 They were arrested and condemned to death. At the last minute they were reprieved and sent to conviction camp.

b. transitive. With from the penalty, punishment, etc. Formerly also †intransitive.

ΘΚΠ

society > law > administration of justice > court proceedings or procedure > judging > sentencing > sentence [verb (transitive)] > reprieve

reprieve1592

β.

1592 T. Nashe Strange Newes D Maister Birdes Letter shall not repriue you from the ladder.

1632 R. Brome Northern Lasse ii. iv Then Sir for this time you shall be repriv'd, From further penance.

1674 D. Brevint Saul & Samuel 229 No Indulgence can reprive from any Punishments that we can see.

γ. 1594 in Publ. Catholic Rec. Soc. (1908) 5 293 He converted 5 or 6 felons in the short tyme he was in Newgate, whereof 2 or 3 might have beene reprieved from the gallows, if they would have denied what they had professed there.1716 W. Wishart Theologia I. x. 359 Reprieved from Everlasting Burning.1774 E. Long Hist. Jamaica I. 627 These men were reprieved from hanging, on condition that they should serve ten years in the West-Indies.1820 S. T. Coleridge Coll. Lett. (1971) V. 20 The young man..was with the greatest exertion of interest put once more on trial and reprieved from a public Disgrace.1864 A. Strickland Lives Queens of Eng. VI. viii. 313 They were separately reprieved from death, by means of a warrant written by the king's hand.1906 Edinb. Rev. 204 471 The love-sick knight who..tears up the warrant reprieving him from execution, and accepts death to save Queen Mary's fragile reputation.1963 P. Vellacott tr. Euripides Medea & Other Plays 48 These two boys are reprieved from banishment.1996 Ice Hockey News Rev. 28 Sept. 31/1 Trickett iced for Panthers after being reprieved from a three game club suspension imposed by the club four days earlier.

c. transitive. In extended use: to grant a respite from death, pain, etc.; to rescue (temporarily) from an undesirable situation; to salvage from damage or destruction. Also with from.The implication of temporary relief is common in early use but rare in later use.

ΘΚΠ

the world > action or operation > safety > rescue or deliverance > rescue or deliver (from) [verb (transitive)]

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to bring off1609

the world > life > death > [verb (transitive)] > respite from death > grant

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β.

1615 J. Sylvester Honor's Farwel in 2nd Session Parl. Vertues Reall sig. Hh5^v To trust our Soule with such whose Stipulation Cannot repaire, cannot repriue, Damnation.

a1631 J. Donne Poems (1633) 127 Thou art repriv'd old yeare, thou shalt not die, Though thou upon thy death bed lye.

1646 R. Crashaw Steps to Temple 124 Those sweet Aires that often slew mee; Shall revive mee Or reprive mee.

1675 R. Baxter Catholick Theol. ii. vi. 115 Nature is reprived and continued by some degree of Grace.

1749 J. Cleland Mem. Woman of Pleasure I. 58 To reprive me, at least for a time, from the attacks of a wretch.

γ. 1605 Bp. J. Hall Medit. & Vowes I. Ep. Ded. sig. A4 It shall please God to reprieue me, vntill a longer day.1609 T. Heywood Troia Britanica xiv. cii. 381 Troy was founded To endure a third wracke, and must fate obay, Therefore euen those that with most might abounded, Cannot reprieue her to a longer day.1665 R. South Serm. preached before Court 32 Company; though it may Reprieve a man from his Melancholy, yet it cannot secure him from his Conscience.1713 J. Smith Poems upon Several Occasions 73 A short Death suspends my Thought: Till thus repriev'd awhile from Sense of Pain, 'Tis more than Life to view your Charms again.1770 O. Goldsmith Deserted Village 238 Reprieve the tottering mansion from its fall.1796 J. Donaldson Mod. Agric. III. xxi. 225 Such [rabbits] as are fat, and in season, are Slaughtered; and those that are lean, or otherwise out of condition, are reprieved.1855 R. Browning Protus in Men & Women (1856) 290 A blacksmith's bastard, whose hard hand reprieved The Empire from its fate the year before.1874 A. C. Swinburne Bothwell ii. i. 94 Of a life much deadlier than itself Death would reprieve me.1919 N.Y. Times Current Hist. 17 442/2 These boys who had been reprieved from the menace which was close to them on every flight.1981 Antiquaries Jrnl. 61 2 At the eleventh hour the National Slide Library at the Victoria and Albert has been reprieved.2003 Guardian 23 June ii. 10/3 The first episode of Fortysomething raises doubts about whether it has the narrative hammer to keep viewers interested through to August, but it's good to see the six-hour, six-weeker reprieved.

†4. transitive. To bring back; to redeem. Obsolete. rare.

ΘΚΠ

the world > action or operation > amending > restoration > restore [verb (transitive)] > a thing to or into previous condition

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?1567 M. Parker Whole Psalter cxxvi. 375 What tyme the Lord: shall backe repry Hard Sions thrall: to death so nye.

1601 S. Daniel Ciuill Warres (rev. ed.) vi. xcv. f. 95, in Wks. Out of Deaths colde hands she [sc. Nature] backe repriues Th'almost confounded spirites, she faine would saue.

†5. transitive. To pardon, forgive (a fault, etc.). Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

society > morality > duty or obligation > moral or legal constraint > immunity or exemption from liability > forgiveness > forgive [verb (transitive)]

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reprieve1591

1591 H. Smith Preachers Proclamacion sig. C2^v It seemes that many are touched with compassion of this, and therfore repriue their vanities.

1629 J. Shirley Wedding i. iii I hope your worship will reprieve my boldness; tis out of love to your daughter.

1760 E. Cooper Coll. Elegiac Poesy ii. 16 Yet good nature would those faults reprieve.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2009; most recently modified version published online June 2022).

单词	reprieve
释义	reprieven. Brit. /rᵻˈpriːv/, U.S. /rəˈpriv/, /riˈpriv/ Forms: α. 1500s–1600s repriue, 1600s reprive, 1600s repryue. β. 1500s–1600s repreeue, 1600s repreeve, 1600s repreiue, 1600s repreive, 1600s repriefe, 1600s reprieue, 1600s– reprieve, 1700s–1800s reprief. Origin: Formed within English, by conversion. Etymon: reprieve v. Etymology: < reprieve v. Compare slightly earlier reprieval n., reprivation n. 1. a. The action of reprieving a person from an impending penalty or punishment, esp. execution; the fact or right of being reprieved in this way. Frequently without reprieve. ΘΚΠ society > law > administration of justice > court proceedings or procedure > judging > sentencing > [noun] > execution of judgement > reprieve, remission, or release from penalty > action or fact of reprieve1592 1592 T. Nashe Strange Newes sig. G2^v Had Phisition Iohn liu'd,..a sinode of Pispots would haue concluded, that Pierce Pennilesse should be confounded without repriue. 1599 T. Heywood 2nd Pt. King Edward IV sig. L4 Can it not be deferd till after noone. Or but two houres, in hope to get repriue? a1616 W. Shakespeare Coriolanus (1623) v. ii. 51 You are condemn'd, our Generall has sworne you out of repreeue and pardon. View more context for this quotation a1627 T. Middleton & W. Rowley Spanish Gipsie (1653) v. sig. I2^v Promise mee you will get Repreeve For the condemned Man. 1671 J. Milton Samson Agonistes 288 So many dy'd Without Reprieve adjudg'd to death, For want of well pronouncing Shibboleth. View more context for this quotation 1733 H. Fielding Miser (London ed.) iv. xii. 64 Sign the Contract; so now, Sir, you are ruined without Reprieve. 1758 J. Reed Madrigal & Trulletta ii. iv. 21 Despairing of reprieve..and nobly scorning to be dragg'd A publick spectacle up Holborn Hill. 1827 Amer. Jrnl. Sci. 61 The penalty of violation is dismissal, without reprieve, from a very desirable service. 1862 W. Howitt Cassell's Illustr. Hist. Eng. VI. ii. 48 The plea for appeal was therefore dismissed, and the next day was appointed to consider the question of reprieve. 1931 ‘R. West’ Ending in Earnest 59 He writes of a German Socialist, sentenced to death for participation in the post-war revolution and reprieved, coming out of the lunatic asylum where he has been for eight years, ever since the shock of reprieve unsettled his reason. 1954 P. Frankau Wreath for Enemy iii. v. 215 According to the Duchess, people who say ‘Guess how much this cost’ should be eliminated from one's visiting-list without reprieve. 1993 S. M. Elkins & E. L. McKitrick Age of Federalism viii. 328 After the verdict of death was voted by the narrowest of margins, Paine made a final plea for reprieve. b. A suspension or (later) a commutation of a death sentence; a remission or a cancellation of any punishment or penalty. ΘΚΠ society > law > administration of justice > court proceedings or procedure > judging > sentencing > [noun] > execution of judgement > reprieve, remission, or release from penalty releasing1395 retreatinga1450 relaxation1520 reprivation1583 reprievala1586 reprieve1594 remission1625 reprievement1633 remish1958 1594 T. Nashe Terrors of Night sig. Fiij To nothing can I compare it [sc. a consumption] better, than to a repriue after aman [sic] is condemnd. 1602 W. Shakespeare Merry Wives of Windsor ii. ii. 8 I haue grated vpon my good friends for 3. repriues, for you and your Coach-fellow Nym. a1680 S. Butler Genuine Remains (1759) I. 210 Like Princes had Prerogative to give Convicted Malefactors a Reprieve. 1722 D. Defoe Moll Flanders 213 The young Offender was spar'd, having obtain'd a Reprieve. 1789 Constit. U.S. ii. §2 The president shall have power to grant reprieves and pardons for offences against the United States. 1843 C. J. Lever Jack Hinton xxii. 152 Like the felon, that feels there is no chance of a reprieve, I could look my fate more steadily in the face. 1874 L. Stephen Hours in Libr. 1st Ser. 342 A reprieve is granted at the last moment, and the martyr is unbound from the stake. 1921 Blackwood's Mag. Dec. 725/2 A nurse..gained a reprieve through consenting to act as spy for the Chay-Ka. 1948 ‘J. Tey’ Franchise Affair xix. 227 A last-minute reprieve with the rope round the hero's neck? 1996 G. Linscott Dead Man's Music (1997) xxi. 242 It was two days before we knew for certain that a reprieve had been granted, that Davie Kendal wouldn't hang. c. A warrant granting or authorizing the suspension or cancellation of a death sentence. Now chiefly historical. ΘΚΠ society > law > administration of justice > process, writ, warrant, or order > [noun] > warrant > types of warrant searchery1541 letter (also commission, gift) of searchery1566 reprieve1602 bench warrant1680 death warrant1692 fastener1699 search warrant1700 lettre de cachet1715 capital commitment1742 peace warrant1772 speciality1815 fugie-warrant1816 arrest warrant1824 1602 W. S. True Chron. Hist. Ld. Cromwell sig. G3 Here is a kinde repriue come from the king, To bring him straight vnto his maiestie. ?a1640 J. Day & H. Chettle Blind-beggar (1659) iii. sig. F Let your Rogueship understand, that this reprieve is counterfeit and made by me. 1703 Clarendon's Hist. Rebellion II. viii. 477 The very Morning, that S^r John Hotham was to dye, a Reprieve was sent from the House of Peers to suspend his execution for three days. 1759 Ann. Reg. 1758 i. 100/2 A reprieve was brought to Newgate for Dr. Hensey, respiting his sentence for a fortnight. 1781 E. Gibbon Decline & Fall II. xix. 136 The second messenger entrusted with the reprieve, was detained by the eunuchs. 1821 Ld. Byron Marino Faliero (2nd issue) i. i. 6 The ducal table, cover'd o'er With..Despatches, judgments, acts, reprieves, reports. 1841 Penny Cycl. XIX. 403/2 If the reprieve is sent by the secretary of state, it is under the sign manual of the king. 1911 W. R. Thayer Life & Times Cavour viii. 193 A messenger brought a reprieve for Agresti and Settembrini, but the hour of execution had almost struck. 1955 C. Carmer Susquehanna xix. 278 The sheriff, after placing the noose about the prisoner's neck, apologetically stated that the morning's rider had brought a reprieve from the governor. 2000 Austin (Texas) Amer.-Statesman (Nexis) 2 June a1 (caption) Sen. Rodney Ellis: Houston Democrat, who was acting in governor's absence, signed the reprieve. 2. The time during which a person is reprieved from execution, punishment, etc., or enjoys a relief from illness; a period of respite or remission. ΘΚΠ society > law > administration of justice > court proceedings or procedure > judging > sentencing > [noun] > execution of judgement > reprieve, remission, or release from penalty > time during which reprievea1616 a1616 W. Shakespeare Measure for Measure (1623) ii. iv. 39 That in his Reprieue (Longer, or shorter) he may be so fitted That his soule sicken not. View more context for this quotation 1763 A. Sutherland Attempts Antient Med. Doctr. I. 344 The symptoms abated, he recovered strength. During this reprieve I ordered him to take two drachms of nitre thrice a day, in a large glass of Bath-water. 1823 tr. Marchioness de Bonchamps Mem. 132 A short time previous to my obtaining my pardon, and during the reprieve, the country-people in whose care I had left my daughter, sent her back to me. 1852 T. Lewis Lives of Friends & Contemp. of Clarendon II. ii. 314 Her health having been tolerably restored during this last reprieve, despair gave her strength to perform the enterprise she had resolved to attempt. 1924 Middlesboro (Kentucky) Daily News 13 Sept. 1/3 Krauser once ‘took a walk’ to the death cell, but was granted an extension of time just five hours before the trap was to be sprung. The appeal he made during that reprieve still is pending. a1969 J. Kerouac Visions of Cody (1992) 76 Where pinochle at a busted dusty rolltop desk consumed thirty-six hours of their fevered reprieve. 1999 Gettysburg (Pa.) Times 2 June a7/1 Social Security and Medicare are hard-pressed to support these extra years on Earth, and physicians cannot guarantee our quality of life during the reprieve. 3. a. A postponement (natural or otherwise) of a person or animal's death; respite or temporary escape from death. ΘΚΠ the world > life > death > [noun] > respite from reprievea1631 a1631 J. Donne XXVI. Serm. (1661) x. 143 Yea it is not here only that they shall perish, in the future; that were a repreive; it were a stalling of a debt. a1634 W. Austin Devotionis Augustinianæ Flamma (1635) 276 Hee..was made an end of. And so must all men, be the time of their Reprieve never so long. 1712 R. Steele Spectator No. 498. ⁋2 If you would but bestow a little of your wholesome Advice upon our Coachmen, it might perhaps be a Reprieve to some of their Necks. 1784 S. Johnson Let. 20 Mar. (1994) IV. 293 God has in his mercy granted me a reprieve, for how much time his mercy must determine. 1816 W. Scott Antiquary I. vii. 164 The sense of reprieve from approaching and apparently inevitable death, had its usual effect. 1870 W. C. Bryant tr. Homer Iliad I. v. 161 With those who flee Is neither glory nor reprieve from death. 1911 Times 2 Jan. 4/6 The rest will find it harder..to claim any further reprieve from the common fate of man and beast. There are animals here that died before the oldest of men were born. 1986 Daily Mail 20 Aug. 10/5 No matter how dashing a bit of pedigree porkflesh becomes, there is no reprieve from the eventual appointment at the abattoir. 2001 R. Ludlum Sigma Protocol 609 In essence, we've been given our lives back. Not our youth so much as—as another chance. A reprieve from death. b. A respite or temporary escape from an unpleasant or undesirable situation; temporary relief from pain, illness, difficulty, etc. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > safety > escape > [noun] > temporary, from trouble or calamity reprievala1586 reprieve1635 1635 F. Quarles Emblemes iv. xiv. 238 I search'd the Shades of Sleepe, to ease my day Of griping sorrowes with a nights repriefe. 1655 T. Fuller Church-hist. Brit. i. 39 Perceiving his Countrey condemned by Gods Justice to Ruine, he could procure a Reprieve, though not prevail for the Pardon thereof. 1733 G. Cheyne Eng. Malady ii. ix. 206 It is absolutely necessary..to gain a Reprieve, from these Symptoms. 1782 F. Burney Cecilia III. v. iv. 59 Cecilia..contrived..to keep her maid in the room. Miss Belfield, supposing this to be accidental, rejoiced in her imaginary reprieve. 1821 J. Clare Village Minstrel I. 133 The moth, for night's reprief, Waited safe and snug withal 'Neath the plantain's bowery leaf. 1851 ‘L. Mariotti’ Italy in 1848 381 The people..were only allowed a choice between the instant surrender of their rights, and a short reprieve, which entitled them to call themselves their own masters till the end of the war. 1929 J. H. Dunham Princ. Ethics viii. 271 Parental affection..finds in this proposal of marriage a reprieve from social condemnation. 1972 ‘G. Black’ Bitter Tea (1973) ix. 139 I sat like a man coming from dental extractions under Novocaine, given a time of numb reprieve before the pain flared. 1990 E. Harth Dawn of Millennium (1991) x. 162 The military edge high technology confers on its creators is but a temporary reprieve. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2009; most recently modified version published online March 2022). reprievev. Brit. /rᵻˈpriːv/, U.S. /rəˈpriv/, /riˈpriv/ Forms: α. 1500s reprie, 1500s repry. β. 1500s–1600s repriue, 1500s–1600s repryue, 1500s–1600s repryve, 1600s–1700s reprive. γ. 1500s–1600s repreue, 1500s–1600s repreve, 1500s–1600s reprieue, 1500s– reprieve, 1600s repreeue, 1600s repreeve, 1600s repreiue. Origin: Apparently a borrowing from French. Etymons: French repris, reprendre. Etymology: Apparently originally (in α. forms) irregularly < Anglo-Norman and Middle French repris, past participle of reprendre (see reprise v.). The final consonant of the β. and γ. forms is perhaps by association with prive v. or deprive v. The unexpected vowel of the γ. forms could perhaps be explained by analogy with the variation shown e.g. at relieve v., which conversely shows unexpected relive (see β. forms at that entry) beside expected relieve (see α. forms; see further E. J. Dobson Eng. Pronunc. 1500–1700 (ed. 2, 1968) II. §136 note 1). Perhaps compare also α. forms at reprove v.¹, and compare Dict. Older Sc. Tongue at unreprevit for uses of prefixed forms of β. forms and α. forms of reprove v.¹ in the sense ‘without remission or reprieve’. Compare earlier reprise v. †1. a. transitive. To take or send back (a prisoner) to prison; to remand or detain on remand. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ society > law > administration of justice > general proceedings > arrest > [verb (transitive)] > commit to custody > recommit to custody remit1414 reprievea1513 remand1641 recommit?c1663 α. a1513 R. Fabyan New Cronycles Eng. & Fraunce (1516) II. f. ccxxix^v [They] were brought vnto Guyldehalle and there areygned, But the sayd Turbyruyle was repryd to pryson. a1513 R. Fabyan New Cronycles Eng. & Fraunce (1516) II. f. lxvi^v They were repryed, and sent vnto the Toure of London, where they remayned longe after. 1542–3 Act 34 & 35 Henry VIII c. 27 §84 The said Iustices..maie reprie the prisoner, til they haue aduertised the Kinges maiestie of the matter. 1556 J. Heywood Spider & Flie lxxviii. 158 Whervpon they repryede me to prison cheynde. 1588 W. Lambarde Eirenarcha (new ed.) iv. xiv. 563 Iustice Welsh thought it meete to reprie the prisoner, without giuing judgement upon him. β. 1567 W. Painter Palace of Pleasure II. xv. f. 105 To be repriued in sharpe and cruell prison.c1571 E. Campion Two Bks. Hist. Ireland (1963) ii. ix. 126 Of this treason he was founde giltye and repryved in the Tower a longe tyme.1577 R. Holinshed Chron. II. 1580/1 His Monkes garment was plucked from his backe, and he repriued [Hall repried] till the king were enformed of his malicious obstinacie.1622 J. Hagthorpe Divine Medit. xxvi. 51 The wretch repriu'd prouokes not's Iudge, but rather Striues to be reguler, to win more fauour. b. transitive. To remit for trial. Obsolete. rare. ΘΚΠ society > law > administration of justice > general proceedings > arrest > [verb (transitive)] > commit to custody > commit for trial reprieve1556 refera1675 fully1846 1556 J. Heywood Spider & Flie xxiv The faughter..apealth to be repride, From London to Louane, there to be tride. †2. transitive. To postpone, delay, put off. Also intransitive. Obsolete.Frequently of a legal judgment; cf. sense 3. ΘΚΠ the world > time > a suitable time or opportunity > untimeliness > delay or postponement > delay [verb (transitive)] forslowc888 eldc897 forsita940 gele971 lengOE drilla1300 delayc1300 onfrestc1300 tarryc1320 jornc1330 dretchc1380 defer1382 forbida1387 to put offa1387 to put (also set) (something) in (or on) delaya1393 dilate1399 fordrawa1400 to put overc1410 latch?c1422 adjournc1425 prolongc1425 proloynec1425 rejournc1425 to put in respite1428 sleuthc1430 respitea1450 prorogue1453 refer1466 sleep1470 supersede1482 respectc1487 postpone1496 overseta1500 respett1500 enjourna1513 relong1523 retract1524 tarde1524 track1524 to fode forth1525 tract1527 protract1528 further1529 to make stay of1530 surcease1530 prorogate1534 to fay upon longc1540 linger1543 retard?1543 slake1544 procrastine1548 reprieve1548 remit1550 suspense1556 leave1559 shiftc1562 suspend1566 procrastinate1569 dally1574 post1577 to hold off1580 drift1584 loiter1589 postpose1598 to take one's (own) timea1602 flag1602 slug1605 elong1610 belay1613 demur1613 tardya1616 to hang up1623 frist1637 disjourn1642 future1642 off1642 waive1653 superannuate1655 perendinate1656 stave1664 detard1675 remora1686 to put back1718 withhold1726 protract1737 to keep over1847 to hold over1853 laten1860 to lay over1885 hold1891 back-burner1975 α. 1548 T. Cooper Bibliotheca Eliotæ (rev. ed.) at Amplio To deferre or delai a thyng in iugement, to repry. β. 1601 A. Munday Downfall Earle of Huntington sig. B3 You to my griefe adde griefe, and are agreed With that false Prior, to repriue my ioyes From execution of all happinesse.1630 T. May Contin. Lucan vii. 533 Not one dayes absence can preuent, Nor scarce repriue my Fate.a1635 T. Randolph Poems (1652) 48 Children though great blessings, onely be Pleasures repriv'd to some posterity.γ. 1567 R. Mulcaster tr. J. Fortescue Learned Commendation Lawes Eng. f. 127^v It was in the Judges power to haue reprieued or respected the womans arreignment til the end of the yere.1629 J. Ford Lovers Melancholy i. 7 I repriev'd Th' intended execution with intreaties And interruption.1664 K. Philips Death v, in Poems 233 Since we cannot Death reprieve, Our Souls and Fame we ought to mind.1782 E. Pendleton Let. 29 Oct. in Lett. & Papers (1967) II. 424 The Treason law has very properly impowered the Executive to reprieve until the meeting of the Assembly.1868 Proc. & Deb. Constit. Convent. State N.Y. 5 3618/1 The..next session of the Legislature, when he shall report the case for their action, which shall be conclusive to pardon, commute, reprieve or divert its execution. 3. a. transitive. To grant a respite to (a person) from impending punishment; esp. to suspend the execution of (a condemned person). Later also: to commute the death sentence of (a person). ΘΚΠ society > authority > punishment > capital punishment > execute [verb (transitive)] > delay or suspend execution reprieve1552 α. 1552 R. Huloet Abcedarium Anglico Latinum at Differ To repry one condempned to death. β. 1572 J. Higgins Huloets Dict. (rev. ed.) at Differ To repryue one that is condemned to death.1578 G. Whetstone Promos & Cassandra: 2nd Pt. v. v. M ii Andrugio lyues: and Promos is repriu'd.1596 E. Spenser Second Pt. Faerie Queene iv. xii. sig. M2^v I humbly craue your Maiestie, It to repleuie, and my sonne repriue . View more context for this quotation1600 T. Dekker Old Fortunatus sig. L1 Vntie their bands, Vice doth repriue you both, I set you free.1630 J. Lane Contin. Squire's Tale (Ashm. 53) (1888) i. viii. 134 So maie wee doe and live, woold Algarsive and his state setters, all vs thus reprive.1655 in C. H. Firth Clarke Papers (1899) III. 38 Three executed at Salisbury, the rest reprived and pardoned.1712 R. Hall Hist. Barbarous Cruelties & Massacres i. 74 Which were Repriv'd after Condemnation.1781 View N. Amer. viii. 179 Next morning, however, to his inexpressible joy, instead of being executed, he was reprived.γ. 1600 Looke about You sig. F 4 Is he repreiued then?1629 F. Quarles Argalus & Parthenia ii. 54 Here's none that can reprieue Such pounded beasts.1642 Execution of Thomas Bullaker sig. A4^v The names and Facts of the Prisoners condemned this last Session: who were reprieved, and who executed.1695 R. Blackmore Prince Arthur i. 15 Her Power can sentenc'd Criminals Reprieve.1734 Select Trials Old-Bailey I. 7/2 He receiv'd Sentence of Death; but was afterwards reprieved.1755 J. Willison Sacramental Directory (ed. 4) iii. 247 Thou hadst been roring in Hell at this Hour, if free Grace had not repriv'd thee.1785 V. Lunardi Acct. Second Aerial Voy. Eng. 18 A Pleasure equal to that of a condemned Malefactor who is reprieved at the Place of Execution!1809 E. A. Kendall Trav. Northern Parts U.S. I. 21 He may reprieve a condemned malefactor till the next meeting of the general assembly; but he can grant no pardon.1867 Times 1 Jan. 9 The Hokitiki murderers have all been executed, except Sullivan, the approver, who was reprieved and had his sentence commuted to life imprisonment.1892 I. Zangwill Big Bow Myst. 180 ‘Pending further inquiries into this,’ said the Home Secretary,..‘I have reprieved the prisoner.’1927 Amer. Mercury Nov. 305/1 The condemned men should be reprieved until after the crops are all in.1960 G. F. Hudson in J. P. Bury Zenith European Power, 1830–1870 (1964) xxvi. 690 Kishen was sent in chains to Peking and condemned to death (though he was reprieved and later pardoned).1997 G. Hosking Russia (1998) iii. vii. 304 They were arrested and condemned to death. At the last minute they were reprieved and sent to conviction camp. b. transitive. With from the penalty, punishment, etc. Formerly also †intransitive. ΘΚΠ society > law > administration of justice > court proceedings or procedure > judging > sentencing > sentence [verb (transitive)] > reprieve reprieve1592 β. 1592 T. Nashe Strange Newes D Maister Birdes Letter shall not repriue you from the ladder. 1632 R. Brome Northern Lasse ii. iv Then Sir for this time you shall be repriv'd, From further penance. 1674 D. Brevint Saul & Samuel 229 No Indulgence can reprive from any Punishments that we can see. γ. 1594 in Publ. Catholic Rec. Soc. (1908) 5 293 He converted 5 or 6 felons in the short tyme he was in Newgate, whereof 2 or 3 might have beene reprieved from the gallows, if they would have denied what they had professed there.1716 W. Wishart Theologia I. x. 359 Reprieved from Everlasting Burning.1774 E. Long Hist. Jamaica I. 627 These men were reprieved from hanging, on condition that they should serve ten years in the West-Indies.1820 S. T. Coleridge Coll. Lett. (1971) V. 20 The young man..was with the greatest exertion of interest put once more on trial and reprieved from a public Disgrace.1864 A. Strickland Lives Queens of Eng. VI. viii. 313 They were separately reprieved from death, by means of a warrant written by the king's hand.1906 Edinb. Rev. 204 471 The love-sick knight who..tears up the warrant reprieving him from execution, and accepts death to save Queen Mary's fragile reputation.1963 P. Vellacott tr. Euripides Medea & Other Plays 48 These two boys are reprieved from banishment.1996 Ice Hockey News Rev. 28 Sept. 31/1 Trickett iced for Panthers after being reprieved from a three game club suspension imposed by the club four days earlier. c. transitive. In extended use: to grant a respite from death, pain, etc.; to rescue (temporarily) from an undesirable situation; to salvage from damage or destruction. Also with from.The implication of temporary relief is common in early use but rare in later use. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > safety > rescue or deliverance > rescue or deliver (from) [verb (transitive)] areddec885 leeseOE reddOE winc1220 deliver?c1225 ridc1225 quita1250 betellc1275 casta1300 to cast outa1300 liverc1330 rescuec1330 wrechec1330 borrowc1350 to put out of ——c1350 to bring awaya1400 redea1400 wreakc1400 rescourec1425 rescousa1450 savec1480 relue1483 salue1484 redeem1488 recovera1500 redressa1500 eschewc1500 rescours1511 to pull (also snatch) out of the fire1526 recourse1533 withtakec1540 redeem1549 vindicate1568 retire1578 repair1591 reprieve1605 to bring off1609 the world > life > death > [verb (transitive)] > respite from death > grant respitec1405 reprieve1605 β. 1615 J. Sylvester Honor's Farwel in 2nd Session Parl. Vertues Reall sig. Hh5^v To trust our Soule with such whose Stipulation Cannot repaire, cannot repriue, Damnation. a1631 J. Donne Poems (1633) 127 Thou art repriv'd old yeare, thou shalt not die, Though thou upon thy death bed lye. 1646 R. Crashaw Steps to Temple 124 Those sweet Aires that often slew mee; Shall revive mee Or reprive mee. 1675 R. Baxter Catholick Theol. ii. vi. 115 Nature is reprived and continued by some degree of Grace. 1749 J. Cleland Mem. Woman of Pleasure I. 58 To reprive me, at least for a time, from the attacks of a wretch. γ. 1605 Bp. J. Hall Medit. & Vowes I. Ep. Ded. sig. A4 It shall please God to reprieue me, vntill a longer day.1609 T. Heywood Troia Britanica xiv. cii. 381 Troy was founded To endure a third wracke, and must fate obay, Therefore euen those that with most might abounded, Cannot reprieue her to a longer day.1665 R. South Serm. preached before Court 32 Company; though it may Reprieve a man from his Melancholy, yet it cannot secure him from his Conscience.1713 J. Smith Poems upon Several Occasions 73 A short Death suspends my Thought: Till thus repriev'd awhile from Sense of Pain, 'Tis more than Life to view your Charms again.1770 O. Goldsmith Deserted Village 238 Reprieve the tottering mansion from its fall.1796 J. Donaldson Mod. Agric. III. xxi. 225 Such [rabbits] as are fat, and in season, are Slaughtered; and those that are lean, or otherwise out of condition, are reprieved.1855 R. Browning Protus in Men & Women (1856) 290 A blacksmith's bastard, whose hard hand reprieved The Empire from its fate the year before.1874 A. C. Swinburne Bothwell ii. i. 94 Of a life much deadlier than itself Death would reprieve me.1919 N.Y. Times Current Hist. 17 442/2 These boys who had been reprieved from the menace which was close to them on every flight.1981 Antiquaries Jrnl. 61 2 At the eleventh hour the National Slide Library at the Victoria and Albert has been reprieved.2003 Guardian 23 June ii. 10/3 The first episode of Fortysomething raises doubts about whether it has the narrative hammer to keep viewers interested through to August, but it's good to see the six-hour, six-weeker reprieved. †4. transitive. To bring back; to redeem. Obsolete. rare. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > amending > restoration > restore [verb (transitive)] > a thing to or into previous condition reversec1350 reforma1393 recover1393 converta1425 reduce?a1425 revolve1431 returnc1436 recure?1440 remayne1481 relieve1483 redressc1500 restaur1508 reprieve?1567 recollect1606 redeem1613 regain1624 to bring back1662 re-reducea1676 ?1567 M. Parker Whole Psalter cxxvi. 375 What tyme the Lord: shall backe repry Hard Sions thrall: to death so nye. 1601 S. Daniel Ciuill Warres (rev. ed.) vi. xcv. f. 95, in Wks. Out of Deaths colde hands she [sc. Nature] backe repriues Th'almost confounded spirites, she faine would saue. †5. transitive. To pardon, forgive (a fault, etc.). Obsolete. ΘΚΠ society > morality > duty or obligation > moral or legal constraint > immunity or exemption from liability > forgiveness > forgive [verb (transitive)] pardon1433 remiss1443 apardon1535 reprieve1591 1591 H. Smith Preachers Proclamacion sig. C2^v It seemes that many are touched with compassion of this, and therfore repriue their vanities. 1629 J. Shirley Wedding i. iii I hope your worship will reprieve my boldness; tis out of love to your daughter. 1760 E. Cooper Coll. Elegiac Poesy ii. 16 Yet good nature would those faults reprieve. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2009; most recently modified version published online June 2022). < n.1592v.a1513
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