Crossword-Solution: RESPITE
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Respite | n. | A putting off of that which was appointed; a postponement or delay. |
| Respite | n. | Temporary intermission of labor, or of any process or operation; interval of rest; pause; delay. |
| Respite | n. | Temporary suspension of the execution of a capital offender; reprieve. |
| Respite | n. | The delay of appearance at court granted to a jury beyond the proper term. |
| Respite | n. | To give or grant a respite to. |
| Respite | n. | To delay or postpone; to put off. |
| Respite | n. | To keep back from execution; to reprieve. |
| Respite | n. | To relieve by a pause or interval of rest. |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
TEEAR
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with RESPITE (5)
Stern-visaged queens, since coming to this land First in your sanctuary I bent the knee, Frown not on me or Phoebus, who, when erst He told me all my miseries to come, Spake of this respite after many years, Some haven in a far-off land, a rest Vouchsafed at last by dread divinities.
Here my companions clustered ready to take my place, and for a moment’s respite I stepped to one side while they held the enemy off.
These various escapades again so terrorized the blacks that, had it not been for the monthly respite between Tarzan’s visits, in which they had opportunity to renew hope that each fresh incursion would prove the last, they soon would have abandoned their new village.
But the intellectual exercises he performed at lightening speed, cranial neuro-syn- apses switching for all they were worth, did not permit Pierre the luxury of a respite of calm.
But it was a short-lived respite, for just as they had concluded that they would not be disturbed again Tarzan gave voice to a weird moan, and as the raiders looked up in the direction from which the sound seemed to come, the ape-man, who stood swinging the dead body of the sentry gently to and fro, suddenly shot the corpse far out above their heads.
Quotes with RESPITE (3)
Haven't I? - he thought. Haven't I thought of it since the first time I saw you? Haven't I thought of nothing else for two years? ... He sat motionless, looking at her. He heard the words he had never allowed himself to form, the words he had felt, known, yet had not faced, had hoped to destroy by never letting them be said within his own mind. Now it was as sudden and shocking as if he were saying it to her ... Since the first time I saw you ... Nothing but your body, that m…
Breeze strolled over to the table and chose a seat with his characteristic decorum. The portly man raised his dueling cane, pointing it at Ham. 'I see that my period of intellectual respite has come to an end.'Ham smiled. 'I thought up a couple beastly questions while I was gone, and I've been saving them just for you, Breeze.''I'm dying of anticipation,' Breeze said. He turned his cane toward Lestibournes. 'Spook, drink.'Spook rushed over and fetched Breeze a cup of wine.'He…
Do you think you wear a mask?’‘I’m wearing one right now.’ Valentino smiled softly. ‘We both are.’‘It’s a sad thought.’‘Yes,’ he said. ‘But sometimes I wonder about the alternative. Imagine if we had no secrets, no respite from the truth. What if everything was laid bare the moment we introduced ourselves?
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Appears in: LAT, Newsday, NY Sun, NYT, Universal, USA TODAY, WSJ.
Used 30 times in crossword archives (1942–2024).