reprive
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English[edit]
Pronunciation[edit]
Etymology 1[edit]
Verb[edit]
reprive (third-person singular simple present reprives, present participle repriving, simple past and past participle reprived)
- Obsolete form of reprieve.
- 1655, James Howell, “To Sir Edward B. Knigh”, in Epistolæ Ho-Elianæ. Familiar Letters Domestic and Forren. […], 3rd edition, volume (please specify the page), London: […] Humphrey Mos[e]ley, […], →OCLC:
- I am reprived to the beginning of that week
Etymology 2[edit]
re- + Latin privare (“to deprive”).
Verb[edit]
reprive (third-person singular simple present reprives, present participle repriving, simple past and past participle reprived)
- To take back or away.
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book II, Canto I”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
- How that my lord from her I would reprive
References[edit]
“reprive”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.