2 uses
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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 occurred to him that the brief reprieve had worked against him.Chapter 5 (47% in)
- But he had succeeded, and after a five-minute reprieve to collect his senses, he'd wound the chain around his wrist so that it appeared he was still bound by it, and he'd called the guard.Chapter 31 (14% in)
There are no more uses of "reprieve" in BoneMan's Daughters.
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