reprise

Etymology

Definitions

1. 1

   A recurrence or resumption of an action.

2. 2

   A repetition of a phrase, a return to an earlier theme, or a second rendition or version…

   A repetition of a phrase, a return to an earlier theme, or a second rendition or version of a song in a programme or musical.

3. 3

   A renewal of a failed attack, after going back into the en garde position.

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   1. 4

      A taking by way of retaliation.

      • Your care about your banks infers a fear Of threatening floods ,and inundations near; If so, a just reprise would only be Of what the land usurped upon the sea
   2. 5

      Deductions and duties paid yearly out of a manor and lands, as rent charge, pensions,…

      Deductions and duties paid yearly out of a manor and lands, as rent charge, pensions, annuities, etc.; also spelled reprizes.

   3. 6

      A ship recaptured from an enemy or from a pirate.

   4. 7

      In masonry, the return of a moulding in an internal angle.

   5. 8

      To take (something) up or on again.

      • How to take life from that dead-liuing swaine, / Whom still he marked freshly to arize / From th'earth, & from her wombe new spirits to reprize.
   6. 9

      To repeat or resume an action or a role.

      • The aging actress played the role she played in her youth, as if to reprise it.
      • The notion of a "psychological wage" originated with Du Bois, was later employed by Fredrickson, and has been reprised in the context of northern industrialism by Roediger.
   7. 10

      To recompense

      To recompense; to pay.

The neighborhood

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• synonymreimburse
• neighborreprehend
• neighborreprieve
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