reprive

English

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ɹɪˈpɹaɪv/

Verb

reprive (third-person singular simple present reprives, present participle repriving, simple past and past participle reprived)

Obsolete form of reprieve.
- 1655, James Howell, “To Sir Edward B. Knigh”, in Epistolæ Ho-Elianæ. Familiar Letters Domestic and Forren. […], volume (please specify the page), 3rd edition, London: […] Humphrey Mos[e]ley, […], →OCLC:
  I am reprived to the beginning of that week

Etymology 2

re- + Latin privare (“to deprive”).

Verb

reprive (third-person singular simple present reprives, present participle repriving, simple past and past participle reprived)

To take back or away.
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book II, Canto I”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
  How that my lord from her I would reprive

References

reprive in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913

Anagrams

pervier

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