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Word Meanings - RESPITE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. A putting off of that which was appointed; a postponement or delay. I crave but four day's respite. Shak. 2. Temporary intermission of labor, or of any process or operation; interval of rest; pause; delay. "Without more respite." Chaucer. Some

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1. A putting off of that which was appointed; a postponement or delay. I crave but four day's respite. Shak. 2. Temporary intermission of labor, or of any process or operation; interval of rest; pause; delay. "Without more respite." Chaucer. Some pause and respite only I require. Denham. Temporary suspension of the execution of a capital offender; reprieve. The delay of appearance at court granted to a jury beyond the proper term. Syn. -- Pause; interval; stop; cessation; delay; postponement; stay; reprieve.

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  • INTERVALLUM
    An interval. And a' shall laugh without intervallums. Shak. In one of these intervalla. Chillingworth.
  • STOPPING
    A partition or door to direct or prevent a current of air. (more info) 1. Material for filling a cavity.
  • PARDON
    A release, by a sovereign, or officer having jurisdiction, from the penalties of an offense, being distinguished from amenesty, which is a general obliteration and canceling of a particular line of past offenses. Syn. -- Forgiveness; remission.
  • STOPPAGE
    The act of stopping, or arresting progress, motion, or action; also, the state of being stopped; as, the stoppage of the circulation of the blood; the stoppage of commerce.
  • INTERVAL
    Difference in pitch between any two tones. At intervals, coming or happening with intervals between; now and then. "And Miriam watch'd and dozed at intervals." Tennyson. -- Augmented interval , an interval increased by half a step or half a tone.
  • STOPPER
    A short piece of rope having a knot at one or both ends, with a lanyard under the knot, -- used to secure something. Totten. (more info) 1. One who stops, closes, shuts, or hinders; that which stops or obstructs; that which closes or fills a vent
  • INTERMISSION
    The temporary cessation or subsidence of a fever; the space of time between the paroxysms of a disease. Intermission is an entire cessation, as distinguished from remission, or abatement of fever. 4. Intervention; interposition. Heylin. Syn. --
  • STOPPED
    Made by complete closure of the mouth organs; shut; -- said of certain consonants . H. Sweet.
  • PARDONABLENESS
    The quality or state of being pardonable; as, the pardonableness of sin. Bp. Hall.
  • PAUSER
    One who pauses. Shak.
  • ACQUITTAL
    A setting free, or deliverance from the charge of an offense, by verdict of a jury or sentence of a court. Bouvier. (more info) 1. The act of acquitting; discharge from debt or obligation; acquittance.
  • SUSPENSION
    A keeping of the hearer in doubt and in attentive expectation of what is to follow, or of what is to be the inference or conclusion from the arguments or observations employed. (more info) 1. The act of suspending, or the state of being suspended;
  • CESSATION
    A ceasing of discontinuance, as of action, whether termporary or final; a stop; as, a cessation of the war. The temporary cessation of the papal iniquities. Motley. The day was yearly observed for a festival by cessation from labor. Sir J. Hayward.
  • ABEYANCE
    Expectancy; condition of being undetermined. Note: When there is no person in existence in whom an inheritance (or a dignity) can vest, it is said to be in abeyance, that is, in expectation; the law considering it as always potentially existing,
  • DELAY
    A putting off or deferring; procrastination; lingering inactivity; stop; detention; hindrance. Without any delay, on the morrow I sat on the judgment seat. Acts xxv. 17. The government ought to be settled without the delay of a day. Macaulay. (more
  • INTERVAL; INTERVALE
    A tract of low ground between hills, or along the banks of a stream, usually alluvial land, enriched by the overflowings of the river, or by fertilizing deposits of earth from the adjacent hills. Cf. Bottom, n., 7. The woody intervale just beyond
  • STOPPING-OUT
    A method adopted in etching, to keep the acid from those parts which are already sufficiently corroded, by applying varnish or other covering matter with a brush, but allowing the acid to act on the other parts.
  • PARDONER
    1. One who pardons. Shak. 2. A seller of indulgences. Chaucer.
  • QUIESCENCE; QUIESCENCY
    The state or quality of being quiescent. "Quiescence, bodily and mental." H. Spencer. Deeds will be done; -- while be boasts his quiescence. R. Browning.
  • PARDONING
    Relating to pardon; having or exercising the right to pardon; willing to pardon; merciful; as, the pardoning power; a pardoning God.
  • UNPARDONABLE
    Not admitting of pardon or forgiveness; inexcusable.
  • INTERPAUSE
    An intermission.
  • NONACQUIESCENCE
    Refusal of acquiescence; failure to yield or comply.
  • UNINTERMISSION
    Want or failure of intermission. Bp. Parker.
  • IMPARDONABLE
    Unpardonable. South.

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