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Definition
delay or halt punishment; or a warrant granting such — especially a death sentence
or:
relieve temporarily
or:
relieve temporarily
- It seemed good to be reprieved, to walk in a land that had only been for a few years under the dominion of the Dark Lord and was not yet fallen wholly into decay.4.4 — Book 4 Chapter 4 — Of Herbs and Stewed Rabbit (7% in)
There are no more uses of "reprieve" in The Two Towers.
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