Reprieve vs Absolution - What's the difference?
reprieve | absolution | Related terms |
To cancel or postpone the punishment of someone, especially an execution.
To bring relief to someone.
* South
(obsolete) To take back to prison (in lieu of execution).
The cancellation or postponement of a punishment.
A document authorizing such an action.
Relief from pain etc., especially temporary.
(ecclesiastical) An absolving of sins from ecclesiastical penalties by an authority.
Forgiveness of sins, in a general sense.
The form of words by which a penitent is absolved.
An absolving, or setting free from guilt, sin, or penalty; forgiveness of an offense.
(obsolete) Delivery, in speech.
Reprieve is a related term of absolution.
As nouns the difference between reprieve and absolution
is that reprieve is the cancellation or postponement of a punishment while absolution is absolution.As a verb reprieve
is to cancel or postpone the punishment of someone, especially an execution.reprieve
English
Verb
(repriev)- Company may reprieve a man from his melancholy, yet it cannot secure him from his conscience.
Derived terms
* reprievalNoun
(en noun)References
absolution
English
Noun
(en noun)- (Shipley)
- Government ... granting absolution to the nation.
- (Ben Jonson)