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reprieval|rɪˈpriːvəl|
Also 6–7 reprival(l.
[f. reprieve v. + al.]
= reprieve n. in various senses. Now rare (common in 17th c.).
αa1586Sidney Arcadia (1598) 352 Gynecia, to whom the fearefull agonies shee still liued in, made any small repriuall sweete. c1595Southwell St. Peter's Compl. 31 Senses and soules repriuall from all cumbers. 1669in 10th Rep. Hist. MSS. Comm. App. V. 98 Wee..ordered that the reprivall of the said Walter..should be continued untill the next Summer Assizes. a1684Leighton Comm. 1 Pet. Wks. (1859) 220/2 These reprivals and prolongings of this present life.
βa1613Overbury Characters (1615) D vj b, His [the sailor's] sleepes are but repreeuals of his dangers. 1656Heylin Surv. France 25 The Baron was again committed to prison, till the Queen Mother had wooed the people..to admit of his reprievall. 1675Baxter Cath. Theol. ii. viii. 156 Is not the very reprieval of the World from deserved ruine and misery so many thousand years an Act of Grace? 1821Southey Vis. Judgm. iv, Change of place to them brought no reprieval from anguish. 1874Baring-Gould Yorksh. Odd. (1875) II. 242 The Parliament having remonstrated at the reprieval of Popish recusants, the King reluctantly signed the warrant for their execution. |