Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- A simplified spelling of
respite .
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- noun obsolete
respite
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Examples
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It might affect continuity, but it would force respit!
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Two weeks ago, I warned the Prest. against granting a respit[e] to Nath[aniel] Gordon, under sentence of death, for Piracy slave trade….
Hanging Captain Gordon Ron Soodalter 2007
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Two weeks ago, I warned the Prest. against granting a respit[e] to Nath[aniel] Gordon, under sentence of death, for Piracy slave trade….
Hanging Captain Gordon Ron Soodalter 2007
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Two weeks ago, I warned the Prest. against granting a respit[e] to Nath[aniel] Gordon, under sentence of death, for Piracy slave trade….
Hanging Captain Gordon Ron Soodalter 2007
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Two weeks ago, I warned the Prest. against granting a respit[e] to Nath[aniel] Gordon, under sentence of death, for Piracy slave trade….
Hanging Captain Gordon Ron Soodalter 2007
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You may well imagine, that Chynons dismayed soule was not a little cheared at these speeches; and therefore, without craving any long respit of time for answer, thus he replyed.
The Decameron 2004
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Don't know if it's going to last but people are certainly taking this respit (ph) to do what they can to begin cleaning up and picking up.
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There was found great store of wine in the towne, but not any thing els: for the other dayes warning of the shippes that came first in, gaue them a respit to cary all away.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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Ei felt no wont ov a temporeri respit from labor bekauz ei tuk no ekseiting food or drink; and ei shud az soon hav meditated a breach in the Dekalog az a breach in mei daili round ov diutiz bei eidling at the sea-seid.
Study and Stimulants; Or, the Use of Intoxicants and Narcotics in Relation to Intellectual Life Alfred Arthur Reade
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Who being called, and the doores set open, he said vnto them; "We haue not héere at this present to shew whereby the thing may be more manifest: therefore we aske respit for answer till to morrow."
Chronicles of England, Scotland and Ireland (2 of 6): England (5 of 12) Henrie the Second Raphael Holinshed
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