reprieve

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1. reprieve - Noun

2. reprieve - Verb

Meaning

To delay the punishment of; to suspend the execution of sentence on; to give a respite to; to respite; as, to reprieve a criminal for thirty days.

To relieve for a time, or temporarily.

A temporary suspension of the execution of a sentence, especially of a sentence of death.

Interval of ease or relief; respite.

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Consciousness is our only reprieve from Time. Mason Cooley

Do not be misled by the fact that you are at liberty and relatively free; that for the moment you are not under lock and key: you have simply been granted a reprieve. Ryszard Kapuściński

In his state of complete powerlessness the individual perceives the time he has left to live as a brief reprieve. Theodor Adorno

I had loved so infrequently I felt a debt to those whom I had, for the reprieve from solitude. Michael Nava

We are not cured of alcoholism. What we have is a daily reprieve contingent on the maintenance of our spiritual condition. Every day is a day when we must carry the vision of God's will into all of our daily activities. Bill W.

After spending much of the past three years anxious that their protection from deportation could evaporate at any moment, many of the so-called Dreamers said they were elated that the court had granted even this temporary reprieve. Source: Internet

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