All 3 Uses

reprieve
in
The Idiot
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Doubtless there may be men who have been sentenced, who have suffered this mental anguish for a while and then have been reprieved; perhaps such men may have been able to relate their feelings afterwards.†
Chpt 1.2
Twenty minutes later he had been reprieved and some other punishment substituted; but the interval between the two sentences, twenty minutes, or at least a quarter of an hour, had been passed in the certainty that within a few minutes he must die.†
Chpt 1.5
He was reprieved, you say; in other words, they did restore to him that 'eternity of days.'†
Chpt 1.5 *

Definitions:

(1) (reprieve)
temporary relief from something difficult or unpleasant; can also refer to a delay in punishment -- especially the death penalty
(2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)