Sekirov Dictionary

reprieve

/ɹɪˈpɹiːv/

noun 4
verb 4
forms 4

noun4

•
The cancellation or postponement of a punishment.
- The prisoner was saved from execution; the governor had requested a reprieve.
•
A cancellation or postponement of a proposed event undesired by many.
- And it said there was no reprieve for 435 stations already approved for closure before the report appeared. — 2023
•
Relief from pain etc., especially temporary.
- I have photographed destroyed homes, hospitals, funerals, humanitarian aid, empty markets and the daily lives of people returning to their neighborhoods during moment of reprieve. — 2014
A document authorizing such an action.

verb4

To cancel or postpone the punishment of someone, especially an execution.
To abandon or postpone plans to close, withdraw or abolish (something).
•
To bring relief to someone.
- Company […] may reprieve a man from his melancholy, yet it cannot secure him from his conscience. — 1692
(no longer used) To take back to prison (in lieu of execution).

forms

reprieved · reprieving · reprieves · reprieveth

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