Reprise vs Impute - What's the difference?
reprise | impute |
A recurrence or resumption of an action.
(music) A repetition of a phrase, or a return to an earlier theme.
(fencing) A renewal of a failed attack, after going back into the on guard position.
A taking by way of retaliation.
(legal, in the plural) Deductions and duties paid yearly out of a manor and lands, as rent charge, pensions, annuities, etc.; also spelled reprizes.
A ship recaptured from an enemy or from a pirate.
(obsolete) To take (something) up or on again.
* , II.xi:
To repeat or resume an action
(obsolete) To recompense; to pay.
To reckon as pertaining or attributable; to charge; to ascribe; to attribute; to set to the account of; to charge to one as the author, responsible originator, or possessor; -- generally in a bad sense.
* 1751 , (Thomas Gray), , lines 37–40:
* 1856 February, , “(Oliver Goldsmith)” in the (eighth edition), volume and page numbers unknown:
* 1956–1960 , (second edition, 1960), chapter ii: “Motives and Motivation”, page 29:
(theology) To ascribe (sin or righteousness) (to) someone by substitution.
* 2009 , (Diarmaid MacCulloch), A History of Christianity , Penguin (2010), page 607:
To take account of; to consider; to regard.
* 1788 , (Edward Gibbon), (The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire) VI, chapter lxiv, “A.D. 1355–1391: The Emperor John Palæologus; Discord of the Greeks”,
To attribute or credit to.
To attribute (responsibility or fault) to a cause or source.
As verbs the difference between reprise and impute
is that reprise is while impute is .reprise
English
Noun
(wikipedia reprise) (en noun)- (Dryden)
- (Burrill)
Verb
(repris)- How to take life from that dead-liuing swaine, / Whom still he marked freshly to arize / From th'earth, & from her wombe new spirits to reprize .
See also
* reprisalAnagrams
* * ----impute
English
Verb
(imput)- Nor you, ye proud, impute to these the fault, // If mem’ry o’er their tomb no trophies raise, // Where thro’ the long-drawn isle and fretted vault, // The pealing anthem swells the note of praise.
- He was vain, sensual, frivolous, profuse, improvident. One vice of a darker shade was imputed to him, envy.
- We ascribe or impute motives to others and avow them or confess to them in ourselves.
- To use the technical language of theologians, God through his grace ‘imputes ’ the merits of the crucified and risen Christ to a fallen human being who remains without inherent merit, and who without this ‘imputation’ would not be ‘made’ righteous at all.
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- They ?erved with honour in the wars of Bajazet; but a plan of fortifying Con?tantinople excited his jealou?y: he threatened their lives; the new works were in?tantly demoli?hed; and we ?hall be?tow a prai?e, perhaps above the merit of Palæologus, if we impute this la?t humiliation as the cau?e of his death.
- We imputed this quotation to Shakespeare.
- People impute great cleverness to cats.
- The teacher imputed the student's failure to his nervousness.