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Shrive v. t. (past shrove; past part. shriven; pres. part. shriving)

To hear or receive the confession of; to administer confession and absolution to; said of a priest as the agent. "That they should shrive their parishioners." "Doubtless he shrives this woman,... Else ne'er could he so long protract his speech." "Till my guilty soul be shriven."

To confess, and receive absolution; used reflexively. "Get you to the church and shrive yourself."

Shrive v. i. (past shrove; past part. shriven; pres. part. shriving) To receive confessions, as a priest; to administer confession and absolution.

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Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Shrive" Quotes from Famous Books

... like any priest, Can shrive the dying or bury the dead, But dearer to me to raise the Beast Or watch the gold in ...

— Legends & Romances of Brittany • Lewis Spence

... you half an hour, senor padre. That will be long enough to shrive the young Englishman," observed the jailer, as he closed ...

— The Young Llanero - A Story of War and Wild Life in Venezuela • W.H.G. Kingston

... To chant o'er a bottle or shrive a lass; No matin's bell called them up in the morn, But the yell of the hounds and sound of the horn; No penance the monk in his cell could stay But a broken leg or a rainy day: The pilgrim that came to the abbey-door, With the feet of the fallow-deer found it nailed ...

— England, Picturesque and Descriptive - A Reminiscence of Foreign Travel • Joel Cook

... For the French the Pope may shrive 'em, For the devil a whit we heed 'em, As for the French, God speed 'em Unto their hearts' desire, And the merry devil drive 'em Through the water ...

— The Early Poems of Alfred Lord Tennyson • Tennyson

... with laughter? "You are a leopard, and a lamb, and a bantam cock all in one," I jeered at him. "No wonder that I feel you need a priest to shrive you;" and I laughed again, and would not notice the hurt shining of his eyes as I ...

— Montlivet • Alice Prescott Smith

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