respite
noun
a delay or cessation for a time, especially of anything distressing or trying; an interval of relief.
unrespited
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a word derived from
respite.
Example Sentences
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What wonder if the hapless three, as yet unrespited, found the wild hope of life surging irresistibly through heart and brain!
From The Dock and the Scaffold by Unknown
My eye followed the light as its gleams shifted their place upon the walls and ceilings, and, gradually vanishing, gave place to unrespited gloom.
From Arthur Mervyn Or, Memoirs of the Year 1793 by Charles Brockden Brown
