reprive

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɹɪˈpɹaɪv/

Etymology 1

Verb

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

1. Obsolete form of reprieve.
   • 1655, James Howell, “To Sir Edward B. Knigh”, in Epistolæ Ho-Elianæ. Familiar Letters Domestic and Forren. , 3rd edition, volume (please specify the page), London: Humphrey Mosley, , →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)

1. 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, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

Anagrams

• pervier