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What is the noun for reprisal?

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reprise
  1. A recurrence or resumption of an action.
  2. (music) A repetition of a phrase, or a return to an earlier theme.
  3. (fencing) A renewal of a failed attack, after going back into the en garde position.
  4. A taking by way of retaliation.
  5. (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.
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  8. Examples:
    1. “But instead, the music turns back to A major for a reprise of the rondo theme.”
reprisal
  1. An act of retaliation.
  2. (archaic) Something taken from an enemy in retaliation.
  3. (archaic) The act of taking something from an enemy by way of retaliation or indemnity.
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  5. Examples:
    1. “Thus in 1895, Great Britain ordered a fleet to land and occupy the custom-house and other Government buildings as an act of reprisal.”
      “Incursions and reprisals continued to take place.”
      “He was driven to use reprisal raids, the razzias that had traditionally formed part of warfare in North Africa.”
reprisals
  1. plural of reprisal
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  3. Examples:
    1. “Many feel the capture of their leader will provoke diehard terrorists into wreaking ever more horrific reprisals.”
      “A gangland war erupts that sees assassination attempts, violent reprisals, and an ever-rising body count.”
      “Mrs Monaghan said she feared reprisals for her visit to London but said something needed to be done to end the stand-off.”
reprises
  1. plural of reprise
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  3. Examples:
    1. “The final variations, with their reprises of themes from the other movements, brought the performance to a rich and satisfying close.”
      “Tom Deckman, playing the jittery Hysterium, gives the same song a loonier spin when he reprises it later in a duet with Mr. Scolari.”
      “The new album reprises themes that have always meant a lot to him, allowing us to understand something of this secretive man.”
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