Sparing; respite or rest.

A calm, lull; figurative respite.

Temporary rest or relief from an unpleasant, undesirable, or tiring situation; a period of rest, a break.

transferred and figurative. A time or period of rest; a cessation from labour, trouble, pain and the like.

Without const. Freedom or respite from work, etc.; time of rest or leisure.

Respite; postponement; (sometimes) spec. postponement of legal action, or entitlement to such postponement (cf. respect, n. 9). Also: an instance of…

A postponement, a delay. Obsolete.

Respite or relief (from something tiring or unpleasant); (also) a period of respite. Also with from, †of. Now archaic and rare.

Temporary cessation, respite, relief, rest, pause. Const. from something. Now rare.

A halt for refreshment in the course of a journey; a stoppage for rest.

An act, on the part of a horse, of recovering its wind after exertion; an opportunity allowed to it of doing this; hence figurative, a rest or…

Respite, rest; an instance of this. Obsolete.

A time of freedom, release, or respite (from something).

The action of putting off to a later time; deferring, postponement; †respite.

With of. Respite from something. Obsolete. rare.

Relaxation, abatement, rest; an instance of this.