Reprieve /(r?-pr?v")/

imp. & p. p. Reprieved; p. pr. & vb. n. Reprieving

1. 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.

   He reprieves the sinnner from time to time.

2. To relieve for a time, or temporarily.

   Company, thought it may reprieve a man from his melaneholy yet can not secure him from his conscience.

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.

2. Interval of ease or relief; respite.

   All that I ask is but a short reprieve, ll I forget to love, and learn to grieve.