reprise

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Scrabble points
9
Words With Friends
10
Letters
7
Pronunciation
/ɹɪˈpɹiːz/
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/ɹɪˈpɹiːz/ · /ɹɪˈpɹaɪz/

Definition of reprise

10 senses · 2 parts of speech · etymology included

noun

  1. A recurrence or resumption of an action.
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noun

  1. A recurrence or resumption of an action.
  2. 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. A renewal of a failed attack, after going back into the en garde position.
  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”
  5. (in-plural)Deductions and duties paid yearly out of a manor and lands, as rent charge, pensions, annuities, etc.; also spelled reprizes.
  6. A ship recaptured from an enemy or from a pirate.
  7. In masonry, the return of a moulding in an internal angle.

verb

  1. (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.”
  2. 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.”
  3. (obsolete)To recompense; to pay.

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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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