Meaning

A recurrence or resumption of an action..

Definitions by Sense

1. A recurrence or resumption of an action.
2. (music) 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. (fencing) A renewal of a failed attack, after going back into the en garde position.
4. A taking by way of retaliation.
5. (law, in the 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. (construction) In masonry, the return of a moulding in an internal angle.
8. (obsolete, transitive) To take (something) up or on again.

Example Sentences

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

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.

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.

Word Forms

• reprises
• reprising
• reprised

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Use reprise when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.

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