Meanings
reprive1
verbreprive (third-person singular simple present reprives, present participle repriving, simple past and past participle reprived)
present singular third person reprives · participle present repriving · participle past reprived · past reprived
- obsoleteObsolete form of reprieve.
I am reprived to the beginning of that week
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 Mos[e]ley, […], →OCLC
reprive2
verbreprive (third-person singular simple present reprives, present participle repriving, simple past and past participle reprived)
present singular third person reprives · participle present repriving · participle past reprived · past reprived
- To take back or away.
How that my lord from her I would reprive
1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book II, Canto I”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC
Origin
re- + Latin privare (“to deprive”).
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