Reprive vs Reprieve - What's the difference?
reprive | reprieve |
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.
As verbs the difference between reprive and reprieve
is that reprive is obsolete form of lang=en while reprieve is to cancel or postpone the punishment of someone, especially an execution.As a noun reprieve is
the cancellation or postponement of a punishment.reprieve
English
Verb
(repriev)- Company may reprieve a man from his melancholy, yet it cannot secure him from his conscience.