reprieve
verb (used with object)
to delay the impending punishment or sentence of (a condemned person).
will reprieve
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future tenseof reprieve.future tense
Used to express actions, events, or states that have not yet occurred but are expected to happen.
Example Sentences
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They do not promise, but they will reprieve, and save your life if you find the man.”
From Northern Lights by Gilbert Parker
This being the case, it being certain that no rank will reprieve a bad writer from final condemnation, the sycophantic glorifier of the public fancies his idol justified; but not so.
From Note Book of an English Opium-Eater by Thomas De Quincey
