reprieve
verb (used with object)
to delay the impending punishment or sentence of (a condemned person).
had reprieved
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past perfectof reprieve.past perfect
Used to express a completed action that took place before another specific past action occurred.
Example Sentences
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Bellamy had reprieved his hometown club from defeat at Reading in midweek with a free-kick six minutes into added time.
From The Guardian ● Feb. 6, 2011
This better-natured poet had reprieved Gentle Amintor too, had he believed 10 The fairer sex his pardon could approve, Who to ambition sacrificed his love.
From Poetical Works of Edmund Waller and Sir John Denham by Sir John Denham
I was taken at the Tolbooth of Wigtown trying to deliver a prisoner, whom ye had reprieved.
From The Men of the Moss-Hags Being a history of adventure taken from the papers of William Gordon of Earlstoun in Galloway by S. R. (Samuel Rutherford) Crockett
