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Reprieve

noun

A (temporary) relief from harm or discomfort. Synonym: respite.

An interruption in the intensity or amount of something. Synonyms: abatement, hiatus, respite, suspension.

A warrant granting postponement (usually to postpone the execution of the death sentence).

The act of reprieving; postponing or remitting punishment. Synonym: respite.

verb

(past & past part. reprieved; pres. part. reprieving)

Postpone the punishment of a convicted criminal, such as an execution. Synonym: respite.

Relieve temporarily.

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"Reprieve" Quotes from Famous Books

... of these being sentenced "to be burned with a slow fire, that he may continue in torment for eight or ten hours and continue burning in said fire until he be dead and consumed to ashes"; and several others were saved only by the royal governor's reprieve and the queen's eventual pardon. Such animosity was exhibited by the citizens toward the "catechetical school" that for some time its teacher hardly dared show himself on the streets. The furor gradually ...

— American Negro Slavery - A Survey of the Supply, Employment and Control of Negro Labor as Determined by the Plantation Regime • Ulrich Bonnell Phillips

... accepted Christ as their Saviour, now receive the adoption of sons. They become the children of God by faith in Jesus Christ. This is their pedigree and they rejoice to declare it. A human governor or ruler may pardon a guilty criminal, and grant him a reprieve, but he never takes him into his own family. He may forgive the guilty one, but he cannot bestow upon him a new nature, nor can he consent to recognize him as a brother or a son. But God not only remits the sins of those whom He saves, ...

— The Theology of Holiness • Dougan Clark

... him?" Richard felt no interest whatever in these narratives as stories; but since they referred to escapes they entrancing. The convict who is cast for death thinks of nothing but a reprieve; the "lifer" or the long-termer, thinks of nothing but an ...

— Bred in the Bone • James Payn

... at Askatoon before the stroke of the hour, but still he would be too late, for in her pocket now was the Governor's reprieve. The man had slept soundly. His wallet was still in his breast; but the reprieve ...

— Northern Lights • Gilbert Parker

... It was like a reprieve to one about to be executed. I could only weep and thank God, once more believing in my Father in heaven. But it was a humbling thought, that, if he had not thus helped me, I might have ceased to believe in him. I saw plainly, that, let ...

— The Vicar's Daughter • George MacDonald

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