reprise

UK /ɹɪˈpɹiːz/ US /ɹɪˈpɹiːz/
noun 5verb 3

Definitions

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

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

verb

1

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

To recompense; to pay.

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