Emily Dickinson Lexicon

reprieve (repreive), n. [see reprieve, v.] (webplay: days, death, live, sentence, time).

1. Respite; relief; discontinuance of an unpleasant experience.
2. Comfort; alleviation; assistance; ease from some discomfort; removal or lessening of some cause of distress; deliverance from what is burdensome.
3. Deliverance from a death sentence, often temporary.