All 5 Uses of
reprieve
in
Tom Jones, by Henry Fielding
- Death, that inexorable judge, had passed sentence on him, and refused to grant him a reprieve, though two doctors who arrived, and were fee'd at one and the same instant, were his counsel.†
Book 2
- Tom was now mounted on the back of a footman, and everything prepared for execution, when Mr Allworthy, entering the room, gave the criminal a reprieve, and took him with him into another apartment; where, being alone with Tom, he put the same question to him which Thwackum had before asked him.†
Book 3
- he who escapes from death is not pardoned; he is only reprieved, and reprieved to a short day.†
Book 5 *
- he who escapes from death is not pardoned; he is only reprieved, and reprieved to a short day.†
Book 5
- My husband therefore was resolved to set out for Ireland; against which I remonstrated very earnestly, and insisted on a promise which he had made me before our marriage that I should never take this journey against my consent; and indeed I never intended to consent to it; nor will anybody, I believe, blame me for that resolution; but this, however, I never mentioned to my husband, and petitioned only for the reprieve of a month; but he had fixed the day, and to that day he obstinately adhered.†
Book 11
Definition:
temporary relief from something difficult or unpleasant; can also refer to a delay in punishment -- especially the death penalty