0 past simple and past participle of reprieve
1 to stop or delay the punishment, especially by death, of a prisoner
The threatened hospitals could now be reprieved.
And it was the first time that anyone had been reprieved for reasons other than pregnancy.
Of these, twenty-five men and both women were reprieved: the convictions of six others were quashed on appeal.
It has not been acquitted, but it has been reprieved; and that is, at any rate, something.
We think that if some of these houses could be reprieved, it would be of considerable help.
For a good many months every case has been reprieved.
If my memory is correct, once the line was reprieved the figure became much lower!
They were obviously people to whom special considerations applied, otherwise they would not have been reprieved.
They have been reprieved because it was thought that in their cases there was a mitigating factor.
