reprieve
verb (used with object)
to delay the impending punishment or sentence of (a condemned person).
unreprieved
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a word derived from
reprieve.
Example Sentences
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So Shakespeare:— "Unhouseled, disappointed, unaneled"; and Milton after him, or, more likely, after the Greek:— "Unrespited, unpitied, unreprieved."
From Among My Books First Series by James Russell Lowell
Lucifer in Starlight. and such lines as— Unrespited, unpitied, unreprieved.
From The Principles of English Versification by Paull Franklin Baum
