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Reprive vs Reprieve - What's the difference?

reprive | reprieve |

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is that reprive is obsolete form of lang=en while reprieve is to cancel or postpone the punishment of someone, especially an execution.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.

reprive

English

Etymology 1

Verb

(repriv)
  • (Howell)

    Etymology 2

    .

    Verb

    (repriv)
  • To take back or away.
  • (Spenser)
    (Webster 1913)

    reprieve

    English

    Verb

    (repriev)
  • To cancel or postpone the punishment of someone, especially an execution.
  • To bring relief to someone.
  • * South
  • Company may reprieve a man from his melancholy, yet it cannot secure him from his conscience.
  • (obsolete) To take back to prison (in lieu of execution).
  • Derived terms

    * reprieval

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • The cancellation or postponement of a punishment.
  • A document authorizing such an action.
  • Relief from pain etc., especially temporary.
  • References