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Respite   /rˈɛspɪt/   Listen
noun
Respite  n.  
1.
A putting off of that which was appointed; a postponement or delay. "I crave but four day's respite."
2.
Temporary intermission of labor, or of any process or operation; interval of rest; pause; delay. "Without more respite." "Some pause and respite only I require."
3.
(Law)
(a)
Temporary suspension of the execution of a capital offender; reprieve.
(b)
The delay of appearance at court granted to a jury beyond the proper term.
Synonyms: Pause; interval; stop; cessation; delay; postponement; stay; reprieve.


verb
Respite  v. t.  (past & past part. respited; pres. part. respiting)  To give or grant a respite to. Specifically:
(a)
To delay or postpone; to put off.
(b)
To keep back from execution; to reprieve. "Forty days longer we do respite you."
(c)
To relieve by a pause or interval of rest. "To respite his day labor with repast."





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"Respite" Quotes from Famous Books



... quietly if I can. I invoke the placid spirit of my Sheldon. I invoke all the divinities of Gray's Inn and "The Fields." Let me be legal and specific, perspicacious and logical—if this beating heart, this fevered brain, will allow me a few hours' respite. ...
— Birds of Prey • M. E. Braddon
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... immortality. They were bold and heroic in war, and intractable and domineering in peace. They were great zealots, devoted to proselytism. They were austere in life, and despised all who were not. They were learned and decorous, and pragmatical. Their dogmatism knew no respite or palliation. They were predestinarians, and believed in the servitude of the will. They were seen in public with ostentatious piety. They made long prayers, fasted with rigor, scrupulously observed the Sabbath, and paid tithes to the cheapest herbs. They assumed superiority ...
— Ancient States and Empires • John Lord
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... march upon the town. But, whether owing to their hard hearts having been touched by the good Father's eloquence, or the fact that the neophytes were under arms, when the Paulistas arrived close to the town they altered their intentions and filed off into the woods. Profiting by the respite from hostilities, Montoya, in conjunction with Padre Diaz Tano and a Father bearing the somewhat curious name of Padre Justo Vansurk Mansilla,*2* devoted all his attention for the time to the Mission of Santa Maria la Mayor, ...
— A Vanished Arcadia, • R. B. Cunninghame Graham
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... to them than the sin of having assumed male attire. They represented to her that, according to the canons, those who thus change the habit of their sex are abominable in the sight of God. At first she would not give a direct answer, and begged for a respite till the next day, but her judges insisted on her discarding the dress; she replied "that she was not empowered to say when ...
— The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 07 • Various
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... bow to Heaven that will'd it so, That darkly rules the fate of all, That sends the respite or the blow, That's free to ...
— On the Choice of Books • Thomas Carlyle
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