reprise
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Definition of reprise
10 senses · 2 parts of speech · etymology included
noun
- A recurrence or resumption of an action.
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noun
- A recurrence or resumption of an action.
- 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.
- A renewal of a failed attack, after going back into the en garde position.
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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”
- (in-plural)Deductions and duties paid yearly out of a manor and lands, as rent charge, pensions, annuities, etc.; also spelled reprizes.
- A ship recaptured from an enemy or from a pirate.
- In masonry, the return of a moulding in an internal angle.
verb
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(obsolete, transitive)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.”
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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.”
- (obsolete)To recompense; to pay.
Definitions from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA.
Etymology
From Middle English reprise (noun) and reprisen (verb), from Old French reprise, from reprendre. In some senses borrowed anew from Modern French reprise.
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