The Collaborative International Dictionary
Reprieve \Re*prieve\ (r?-pr?v"), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Reprieved (-pr?vd"); p. pr. & vb. n. Reprieving.] [OE. repreven to reject, disallow, OF. reprover to blame, reproach, condemn (pres. il reprueve), F. r['e]prouver to disapprove, fr. L. reprobare to reject, condemn; pref. re- re- + probare to try, prove. See Prove, and cf. Reprove, Reprobate.]
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To delay the punishment of; to suspend the execution of sentence on; to give a respite to; to respite; as, to reprieve a criminal for thirty days.
He reprieves the sinnner from time to time.
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To relieve for a time, or temporarily.
Company, thought it may reprieve a man from his melaneholy yet can not secure him from his conscience.
--South.
Wiktionary
vb. (en-past of: reprieve)
Usage examples of "reprieved".
I immediately returned to the Hold, reprieved from the despair of more deaths among my loved ones.
And Sir William Phips, Governour, Reprieved all that were Condemned, even the Confessors, as well as others.
But when Panzram heard there was a movement to get him reprieved, he protested violently: ‘I would not reform if the front gate was opened right now and I was given a million dollars when I stepped out.
A man who had just been reprieved from a firing squad would fling open his senses like windows.
Whitney was reprieved at the last moment for offering to betray his accomplices.
The stasis box kept the prisoner safely removed from society… but he could always be reprieved and recalled to life.
And now your father and mother are demanding you be reprieved from all service on account of your misfortune.
Whatever horror she'd dreaded she would see, she discovered - exhaling sharply, reprieved - that she was staring at the corpse's unburned left leg and foot.
She turned the next-to-last photograph and again exhaled, reprieved, viewing the corpse's unburned right leg and foot.