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- verb Simple past tense and past participle of
respite .
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Examples
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Again by an oversight the ‘Vocall Musick’ (to which Purcell seems to have acted as accompanist) received no official listing (or payment); they petitioned for arrears in 1693 but the matter was ‘to bee respited till the establishment is altered’.
Archive 2009-05-01 Lu 2009
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Caroline (regent of the kingdom during the absence of George II. on the Continent), that the execution of the sentence of death pronounced against John Porteous, late Captain – Lieutenant of the City Guard of Edinburgh, present prisoner in the Tolbooth of that city, be respited for six weeks from the time appointed for his execution.
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She no longer beheld Theodore as one respited from death, but took leave of him with a mournful pre-sentiment that she should see him no more.
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Again I looked round for the instrument of destruction, and again I was respited.
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Rashleigh had been respited from death, in number upwards of fifty, were placed in two large vans, strongly ironed, handcuffed and chained together, as well as to the van, which drove off at a rapid rate.
Ralph Rashleigh 2004
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The two first of the three gentlemen were shot to death, and the third respited.
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She has now prorogued the best Parliament that ever assembled in her reign and respited her own glory, and the wishes, prayers, and wants of her people, only to give some of her Allies an opportunity to think of the returns they owe her, and try if there be such a thing as gratitude, justice, or humanity in Europe.
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The two first of the three gentlemen were shot to death, and the third respited.
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Mithridatic war being then under debate, Marcus declared that it was not finished, but only respited for a time, and therefore, upon choice of provinces, the lot falling to Lucullus to have Gaul within the Alps, a province where no great action was to be done, he was ill-pleased.
The Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romans Plutarch 2003
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After two more long sweeps through suburbia (in which at least one baby got kissed) we respited for a late sandwich lunch in a pub.
Penalty Francis, Dick 1997
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