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Reprises vs Reprised - What's the difference?

reprises | reprised |

As verbs the difference between reprises and reprised

is that reprises is while reprised is (reprise).

reprises

English

Noun

(head)
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    reprised

    English

    Verb

    (head)
  • (reprise)
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    reprise

    English

    Noun

    (wikipedia reprise) (en noun)
  • 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.
  • (Dryden)
  • (legal, in the plural) Deductions and duties paid yearly out of a manor and lands, as rent charge, pensions, annuities, etc.; also spelled reprizes.
  • (Burrill)
  • A ship recaptured from an enemy or from a pirate.
  • Verb

    (repris)
  • (obsolete) To take (something) up or on again.
  • * , II.xi:
  • 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 .
  • To repeat or resume an action
  • (obsolete) To recompense; to pay.
  • See also

    * reprisal

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