shrives

So, I mean, we're not going to have hostages on there delivering long shrives as they're being coached by their captors.

CNN Transcript Dec 3, 2005 2005

The priest hath his foe who comes and shrives [6] us,

Narrative and Lyric Poems (first series) for use in the Lower School O. J. Stevenson

The innocence that shrives me; stoop to the stream

The Last Meeting 1918

The hermit who shrives the mariner, and the little vesper bell which biddeth him to prayer are Catholic touches, and so are the numerous pious oaths and ejaculations;

A History of English Romanticism in the Nineteenth Century 1886

I consider beyond any doubt that they will be most devoted servants of God, who works marvels in all those whom He shrives, and all set themselves to observe the warnings of the gospel.

The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898 — Volume 22 of 55 1625-29 Explorations by early navigators, descriptions of the islands and their peoples, their history and records of the catholic missions, as related in contemporaneous books and manuscripts, showing the political, economic, commercial and religious conditions of those islands from their earliest relations with European nations to the close of the nineteenth century. Edward Gaylord Bourne 1884

Beg shriv'ness for bothering ye, but I'm sad for my naughties, and I would it were you as shrives me. "

A Canticle for Leibowitz Miller, Walter M. 1959

It is the _willingness to suffer_ that shrives us -- not the pain itself. "

The Lamp of Fate Margaret Pedler