reprievern.
/rᵻˈpriːvə/, U.S. /rəˈprivər/, /riˈprivər/ A person who reprieves someone or something.In quot. 1651 figurative.
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the world > action or operation > amending > restoration > [noun] > one who or that which
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reducerc1530
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restauratora1631
repriever1651
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1651 L. Willan Astræa iii. i. 47 Thou fair Stream, Repriever of my Life, Thy Nature bad thee then to end this Strife.
1685 R. Baxter Paraphr. New Test. John i. 9 As the Repriever and Restorer of blinded Intellects, he giveth all men that measure of moral and restored Light and Revelation which they have.
1860 R. S. Surtees Plain or Ringlets? 396 Finding a lesser evil than he expected, he greeted Mr. Ballivant with the warmth of a repriever.
1906 Des Moines (Iowa) Daily News 3 Nov. 4/3 It's me that's the pardoner and repriever, and I'll tell you the way of it.
1947 J. Lees-Milne Age Adam i. 3 It was until very lately assumed, even by the most intrepid of the pioneer reprievers, that Burlington may have been the enlightened patron.., but that Kent was the artist who executed the work.
2003 Gazette (Montreal) 20 Feb. a30 (headline) Death-row repriever among Peace Prize nominees.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2009; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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