reprise

[ri-prahyz for 1; ruh-preez for 2, 3]

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noun

Usually reprises. Law. an annual deduction, duty, or payment out of a manor or estate, as an annuity or the like.
Music.
1. a repetition.
2. a return to the first theme or subject.

verb (used with object), re·prised, re·pris·ing.

to execute a repetition of; repeat: They reprised the elaborate dance number in the third act.

Origin of reprise

1350–1400; Middle English < Middle French: a taking back, Old French, noun use of feminine past participle of reprendre to take back < Latin reprehendere to reprehend

Can be confusedreprisal reprise

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Related Words for reprise

restate, renew, repeat, echo, recite, rehash, reiterate, replay, summary, peroration, regain, recover, rescue, deliver, free, redeem, extricate, release, manumit, save

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Contemporary Examples of reprise

This week, he had Brian Williams reprise his role as newsman-turned-jazzman.
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Jack Nicholson was also approached to reprise his role as the Joker.
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Christian Bale was reportedly offered $50 million to reprise the role of Batman in Superman vs. Batman.
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The vice president has to be himself, not a reprise of a miscast LBJ.
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Historical Examples of reprise

The French have two words for these two sounds—the cri and the reprise.
The Mother's Manual of Children's Diseases
Charles West, M.D.
This is followed by the reprise of the first and second subjects.
Contemporary American Composers
Rupert Hughes
The reprise of the dance was brief, and he had to surrender her from his embrace.
The Cup of Fury
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And at the very spot on the floor where any object contained in the bowl would have fallen, came a reprise of the bell note!
Bat Wing
Sax Rohmer
This is gradually appassionated until it is merged into the reprise of the first movement proper.
Contemporary American Composers
Rupert Hughes

British Dictionary definitions for reprise

reprise

noun

the repeating of an earlier theme

verb

to repeat (an earlier theme)

Word Origin for reprise

C14: from Old French, from reprendre to take back, from Latin reprehendere; see reprehend

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Word Origin and History for reprise

late 14c., "yearly deduction from charges upon a manor or estate," from Old French reprise "act of taking back" (13c.), fem. of repris, past participle of reprendre "take back," from Latin reprendere, earlier reprehendere, earlier reprehendere (see reprehend). Meaning "resumption of an action" is from 1680s. Musical sense is from 1879.

early 15c., from Old French repris, past participle of reprendre (see reprise (v.)).