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Shrive   Listen
verb
Shrive  v. t.  (past shrove; past part. shriven; pres. part. shriving)  
1.
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."
2.
To confess, and receive absolution; used reflexively. "Get you to the church and shrive yourself."






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"Shrive" Quotes from Famous Books



... aloud. "Why, how now," quoth he, "is thy proud stomach quailing? Shrive thyself, thou vile knave, for I mean that thou shalt hang this day, and that where three roads meet, so that all men shall see thee hang, for carrion crows and daws ...
— The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood • Howard Pyle

... I like the friar, that doth shrive A wretch for murder doom'd, who e'en when fix'd, Calleth him ...
— The Divine Comedy, Complete - The Vision of Paradise, Purgatory and Hell • Dante Alighieri

... an hour, senor padre. That will be long enough to shrive the young Englishman," observed the jailer, as he ...
— The Young Llanero - A Story of War and Wild Life in Venezuela • W.H.G. Kingston

... table still behold The cup of consecrated gold; Massy and deep, a glittering prize, Brightly it sparkles to plunderers' eyes: That morn it held the holy wine, Converted by Christ to his blood so divine, Which his worshippers drank at the break of day, To shrive their souls ere they joined in the fray. Still a few drops within it lay; And round the sacred table glow Twelve lofty lamps, in splendid row, From the purest metal cast; A spoil—the ...
— Lyra Heroica - A Book of Verse for Boys • Various

... large apartment is fitted up as a Roman Catholic chapel. If any of the bull-fighters are fatally injured and about to die, here the priest, as regular an attendant as the surgeon, can administer the last rite, shrive the sufferer of all sin, and start him on his triumphant way to other, and, it is to be hoped, happier hunting-grounds. At the bull-ring the populace, to the number of from fourteen to fifteen thousand, assemble nearly every Sabbath ...
— Due West - or Round the World in Ten Months • Maturin Murray Ballou

... this once and see what happens," answered Everett with a laugh. "Indeed, I'm ashamed of having shown you any impatience at all—to think of impatience in this heaven country of hospitality amounts to positive sacrilege. Shrive me—and then bring ...
— Rose of Old Harpeth • Maria Thompson Daviess

... the stranger as we accept many things in Tiverton. Parson and doctor kept his secret well. He is quite safe from our questioning; but for years I expected a lady, always young and full of grief, to seek out his grave and shrive him with her tears. She will not appear now, unless she come as an old, old woman, to lie beside him. It is ...
— Tiverton Tales • Alice Brown

... my part I never believed that monstrous sin was upon him." Here he jumped up. "I am going home, Milo," he said; "I am going home. I am going to my father's tomb. I will do penance there, and serve my people, and live clean. Look now, Milo, shrive me if thou hast the power, for my need is great." The thought was blessed to him. He confessed his sins then and there, all a huddle of them, weeping so bitterly that I should have wept myself had I not been ready rather to laugh and crack my fingers to see the breaking up of his long and deadly ...
— The Life and Death of Richard Yea-and-Nay • Maurice Hewlett

... feasting and gossip are in strange contrast to the grey gown of the Jesuit priest hurrying from the monastery opposite, to shrive some sinner, or to administer "Extreme Unction" to some dying saint. Within the convent walls pious sisters, followers of Mademoiselle Mance and Madame d'Youville, tend the sick and unfortunate, whom the tide ...
— Famous Firesides of French Canada • Mary Wilson Alloway



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