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Definition of Reprive
1. v. t. To take back or away.
2. v. t. To reprieve.
Definition of Reprive
1. Verb. (obsolete form of reprieve) ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Reprive
1. repreeve [v REPRIVED, REPRIVING, REPRIVES] - See also: repreeve
Lexicographical Neighbors of Reprive
Literary usage of Reprive
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Glossary of Tudor and Stuart Words: Especially from the Dramatists by Walter William Skeat, Anthony Lawson Mayhew (1914)
"... esp. to delay the execution of a condemned person, ' I humbly crave your
Majestie to ... my sonne reprive', Spenser, FQ iv. 12. 31. First used in pp., ..."
2. Commons Debates for 1629 by Wallace Notestein, Frances Helen Relf (1921)
"... it by expresse and immediate Comand from the Kings owne mouth, and that for
the rest he did reprive one Smith by a signification of the Kings pleasure, ..."
3. The Manuscripts of J. J. Hope Johnstone, Esq., of Annandale by John James Hope-Johnstone, William Johnstone Annandale, William Lindsay Crawford, William Fraser (1897)
"... and we are more and more persuaded that if the first orders for a reprive had
not come so soon, the greater pairt of them might have confest, ..."
4. History Rescued: In Answer to "History Vindicated", Being a Recapitulation by Mark Napier (1870)
"... upon ane address made by the saids persons, did [s/r] reprive the sentence of
death pronounced against them, to the twentieth day of June ..."
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