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单词 without reprieve
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without reprieve
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.
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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
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1592 T. Nashe Strange Newes sig. G2v 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. I2v 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.
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