Company, thought it may reprieve a man from his melaneholy yet can
not secure him from his conscience.
South.
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Re*prieve" (r?-pr?v"), n. 1. A temporary suspension of the execution of
a sentence, especially of a sentence of death.
The morning Sir John Hotham was to die, a reprieve was sent to
suspend the execution for three days.
Clarendon.