Reprieve

(noun.) the act of reprieving; postponing or remitting punishment.

(noun.) a warrant granting postponement (usually to postpone the execution of the death sentence).

(noun.) a (temporary) relief from harm or discomfort.

(verb.) relieve temporarily.

(verb.) postpone the punishment of a convicted criminal, such as an execution.

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• The first symptom of the disease was the death-warrant, which in no single instance had been followed by pardon or reprieve. 玛丽·雪莱. 最后一个人.
• Jane would have begged for a further reprieve, had it not been that she too had begun to believe that her forest lover would return no more. 埃德加·赖斯·巴勒斯. 人猿泰山.
• Shirley, never sorry to snatch a reprieve from their society, had remained behind, detained by business, as she said. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
• He knew the reprieved feeling he had felt when the _Ingl閟_ had told him he was to go with the message. 欧内斯特·海明威. 丧钟为谁而鸣.

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