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1595 Acts Privy Council (1901) XXV. 11 There was..levied and collected of every tonne's landinge of merchantes' goodes..three half pence,..and we understand that this laudable and Godly order is somewhat oppunged and withstood by reprisers.

a1628 J. Doddridge Hist. Wales, Cornewall & Chester (1630) 76 With the ordinary deductions and Reprizes taken out of it..in charges, fees, to officers, and other reprizers.

1744 Let. 1 Apr. 2 in N. Blanch Method Improving Estates That Nation did not deserve an honourable one [sc. war]. They were Pirates, and we ought to have been Reprisers.

1977 M. Walzer Just & Unjust Wars xiii. 209 The case of the FFI prisoners is useful because it provides a classic example of reprisal, and one in which our sympathies are likely to be engaged, at least initially, on the side of the ‘reprisers’.

1998 Weekly Standard (Nexis) 18 May 22 To prove that charge, it must be shown that adverse actions are taken because of protected contacts the pilots made that are known by the repriser.

2005 Polit. Sci. Q. 569 The psychological urge to pay back in kind, or worse, is difficult to overcome, and it is doubtful that reprisers would or could respect the rule of proportionality.