Reprieve

Definitions: Reprieve

Reprieve

Noun

1. A (temporary) relief from harm or discomfort.

2. An interruption in the intensity or amount of something.

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

4. The act of reprieving; postponing or remitting punishment.

Verb

1. Postpone the punishment of a convicted criminal, such as an execution.

2. Relieve temporarily.

Date "reprieve" was first used: 1571. (references)

Domain	Definitions
Dream Interpretation	To be under sentence in a dream and receive a reprieve, foretells that you will overcome some difficulty which is causing you anxiety. For a young woman to dream that her lover has been reprieved, denotes that she will soon hear of some good luck befalling him, which will be of vital interest to her. Source: Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted ....
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Synonyms: Reprieve

Synonyms: abatement (n), hiatus (n), suspension (n), respite (v). (additional references)

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Acquittal	Reprieve, respite; pardon; (forgive); let off, let off scot-free.
	Noun: acquittal, acquitment; clearance, exculpation; acquittance, clearance, exoneration; discharge; (release); quietus, absolution, compurgation, reprieve, respite; pardon; (forgiveness).
Deliverance	Noun: deliverance, extrication, rescue; reprieve, reprieval; respite; liberation; emancipation; redemption, salvation; riddance; gaol delivery; redeemableness.
Escape	Reprieve; (deliverance); liberation. refugee; (fugitive).
Forgiveness	Noun: forgiveness, pardon, condonation, grace, remission, absolution, amnesty, oblivion; indulgence; reprieve.
	Let off, remit, absolve, give absolution, reprieve; acquit.
Lateness	Delay, delation; cunctation, procrastination; deferring, deferral; Verb: postponement, adjournment, prorogation, retardation, respite, pause, reprieve, stay of execution; protraction, prolongation; Fabian policy, medecine expectante, chancery suit, federal case; leeway; high time; moratorium, holdover.
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

Crosswords: Reprieve

English words defined with "reprieve": Reprieval, Reprieved, Reprieving, Reprive. (references)

Specialty definitions using "reprieve": Bawtry ♦ Reprieve. (references)

Domain

Usage

Movie/TV Titles

The Reprieve (1913)

Merciless Reprieve (1991)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Domain	Title
Books	An Indefinite Reprieve (reference) Disease Reprieve (reference) Moments of Reprieve (Twentieth Century Classics) (reference) No Reprieve (Thorndike Large Print Harlequin Romance Series) [LARGE PRINT] (reference) The Reprieve (Les Chemins De LA Liberte) (reference) (more book examples)
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Thumbnail	Description & Credit	Thumbnail	Description & Credit
	Base camp for Mount Elbert observations The party got a reprieve as there was more funding to finish some Colorado work Triangulation party of Wilbur Porter.Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection.		He listened as one may listen to a reprieve.Credit: Library of Congress.
	I wonder if it's a reprieve or a full pardon?.Credit: Library of Congress.		If dreams came true. The reprieve.Credit: Library of Congress.
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Subject	Topic	Quote
Women	Spain	A ministerial order to increase women's presence in sectors in which they are underrepresented provides a 2-year reprieve from paying social security taxes to employers who hire women in these sectors. (references)
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

"Reprieve" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 95.87% of the time. "Reprieve" is used about 218 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Noun (singular)	95.87%	209	21,011
Lexical Verb (infinitive)	2.75%	6	143,867
Lexical Verb (base form)	0.92%	2	245,945
Noun (proper)	0.46%	1	339,140
Total	100.00%	218	N/A

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Language		Translations for "reprieve"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		pushim (break, cease, cessation, chuck, discharge, dismissal, dismission, intermission, leave, letup, outage, pause, playtime, recess, recreation, relaxation, respite, rest, standstill, stoppage), ia shtyj afatin ekzekutimi, anulim dënimi me vdekje. (various references)

Arabic		‏تأجيل (adjournment, carry over, continuation, deferment, delay, postponement, procrastination, prorogation, respite), ‏إرجاء (postponement, respite, stay, suspension), ‏أمهل (give smb. notice, indulge, respite, stall), ‏أعطى مهلة, ‏برجئ تنفيذ العقوبة. (various references)

Bulgarian		отмора (diversion, recreation, relaxation, respite, rest), отдих (leisure, relaxation, repose, respite, rest, truce), помилване (amnesty, caressing, fondling, free pardon, oblivion, pardon, stroking), помилвам (amnesty, caress, fondle, pardon, stroke), давам отдих на (respite, rest). (various references)

Chinese		�"刑. (various references)

Czech		omilostnit, omilostnìní, odroèit (adjourn, postpone, prorogue, recess, remand, retard), odroèení (adjournment, postponement, prorogation, remand, respite, suspense), odložit (abort, adjourn, cast aside, cast off, defer, delay, discard, doff, get off, hang out, hold over, lay aside, lay by, Park, postpone, put aside, put away, put off, recess, stay, suspend, take off, throw away), oddech (pause, rest, truce), milost (grace, pardon), lhùta (date, deadline, period, term, time), dát lhùtu. (various references)

Dutch		verzoekschrift om gratie (petition for a reprieve), gratieverzoek (petition for a reprieve), gratieaanvraag (petition for a reprieve). (various references)

Farsi		مجازات کسی رابتعویق انداختن , رخصت (Leave, Permission, Respite). (various references)

Finnish		armonanomus (petition for a reprieve, petition for pardon), anomus rangaistuksen kumoamisesta tai lieventämisestä armahduksen kautta (petition for a reprieve). (various references)

French		sursis (respite). (various references)

German		strafaufschub (suspension of sentence), galgenfrist (last respite), begnadigung (absolution, act of grace, amnesty, pardon), begnadigen (pardon). (various references)

Greek		αναστολή καταδίκησ, αναστολή θανατικήσ καταδίκησ, αναβάλλω την εκτέλεσιν ποινήσ. (various references)

Hebrew		לתת ארכ�", ארכ�" (extension, respite). (various references)

Hungarian		haladék (delay, moratoria, moratorium, respite), halálbüntetés felfüggesztése. (various references)

Italian		rinviare esecuzione, sospensione di condanna, sospendere l'esecuzione, grazia (charm, Favor, favour, grace, gracefulness, mercy, neatness, pardon, prettiness), dare la tregua, concedere una proroga. (various references)

Manx		sauail (rescue, salvage, save), livreys (assignment, rescue). (various references)

Pig Latin		eprieveray

Portuguese		prorrogação (adjournment, continuation, extension, prolonged, respite), conceder uma moratória, conceder um adiamento, adiamento (adjournment, deferment, delay, dilation, postponement, procreate, respite, stay). (various references)

Romanian		rãgaz (dalliance, interregnum, interruption, leisure, pause, peace, respite, rest, time, truce), termen (expression, hour, name, relations, term, terminus, terms, time, word), graţia (pardon), da un rãgaz, comutare (commutation), comuta, amânare (adjournment, dalliance, deferment, delay, postponement, procrastination, respite, retardation), amâna (adjourn, continue, dally, delay, drive, hang up, hold over, leave over, postpone, procrastinate, protract, put by, put off, refer, shunt, stay), acorda o amânare. (various references)

Russian		отсрочка (adjournment, deferment, delay, extension, moratorium, postponement, prorogation, respite). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		olakšanje (alleviation, assuagement, mitigation, relief), odložiti (adjourn, carry over, defer, delay, lay aside, postpone, put off, remit, reserve, respite, retard, stay, table), odlaganje izvršenja kazne. (various references)

Spanish		indulto (amnesty, indult, pardon). (various references)

Swedish		uppskov (abeyance, adjournment, deferment, delay, indulgence, moratorium, postponement, put off, respite, suspence, suspense, suspension, suspensive action). (various references)

Turkish		rahatlama (relaxation, relief), rahat vermek, yüreğine su serpmek, içini rahatlatmak (relieve), ferahlık (roominess, spaciousness), ertelemek (adjourn, carry over, continue, defer, delay, hang up, hold off, hold over, lay aside, lay by, lay over, leave over, postpone, procrastinate, put off, reserve, respite, scrub, shelve, sidetrack, stay, suspend, table, waive), cezayı ertelemek, cezanın ertelenmesi. (various references)

Ukranian		відстрочувати виконання вироку, відстрочка виконання вироку, відстрочка (adjournment, deferment, postponement, prorogation, respite). (various references)

Vietnamese		sự giảm tội, lệnh giảm tội, lệnh ân xá. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Language	Period	Translations
Middle English	1100-1500	repryen. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Derivations
	Words beginning with "reprieve": reprieved, reprieves. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"Reprieve" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: reaprieve, rebrief, redrive, reprave, repreive, reproef, rereive, rerieve, resprieve. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

# of Phoneme Matches	Pronunciation	Word(s) rhyming with "reprieve" (pronounced rēprē"v)
3	-r ē" v	aggrieve, greave, grieve, reave, Reeve, retrieve.
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "e-e-e-i-p-r-r-v"
	-1 letter: reverie.
	-2 letters: eerier, peerie, reiver, revere, riever, verier.
	-3 letters: eerie, peeve, prier, reeve, reive, riper, river, viper.
	-4 letters: epee, ever, peer, peri, pier, pree, ripe, rive, veep, veer, vier.
	-5 letters: ere, err, eve, ire, pee, per, pie, ree, rei, rep, rev, rip, vee, vie.
	Words containing the letters "e-e-e-i-p-r-r-v"
	+1 letter: perceiver, prereview, previewer, reprieved, reprieves.
	+2 letters: perceivers, perversive, preservice, previewers, repressive.
	+3 letters: overprecise, persevering, predelivery, privateered.
	+4 letters: interpretive, irrespective, perversities, preinterview, preoperative, preservative, receivership, recuperative, repercussive, reprehensive, repressively.
	+5 letters: herpesviruses, hyperreactive, overimpressed, overimpresses, overprescribe, perseverating, perseveration, perseveringly, predeliveries, preinterviews, preservatives, receiverships, retrospective, superachiever.
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