Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- An obsolete form of
prove .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- transitive verb Obs. or Scot. To prove.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb To
prove .
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Examples
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Gel sympathized; such news would be like a re-prieve from a death-sentence.
Elvenborn Lackey, Mercedes 2002
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Your flesh it is tender, your banes I maun prieve;
The Tod (A) 1932
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Re-prieve, a pardon v. Re-prôa [Tc] h, to upbraid v. Re-prove, to blame v. Re-pulse, to drive off
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19© ACCOUNT OF THE PUTRID SORE THROAT. thought to be out of danger, at leaft from the difcafe itfelf • 5 though fome dropped oiF unexpcdledly, after a much longer re -. prieve +.
A Complete Collection of the Medical and Philosophical Works of John Fothergill 1781
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