Both Uses
respite
in
Uncle Vanya
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- The Professor sits in his library from morning till night, as usual— "Straining the mind, wrinkling the brow, We write, write, write, Without respite Or hope of praise in the future or now."†
Act 1 *
- There he lives, cut off from the world by cold and storm and endless roads of bottomless mud, surrounded by a rough people who are crushed by poverty and disease, his life one continuous struggle, with never a day's respite; how can a man live like that for forty years and keep himself sober and unspotted?†
Act 2
Definitions:
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(1)
(respite) a temporary relief from harm or discomfort
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)