Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Shrift; the act of one who shrives, or (as a priest) hears confession.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun Shrift; confession.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of
shrive . - noun The hearing of a
confession ofsins .
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Examples
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The tradition of making pancakes on Shrove Tuesday stretches back to about Tudor times, a good 500 years after the notion of "shriving" - or confessing to sins - became part of popular religious practice on the last day before the start of Lent.
Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph 2011
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Before the Reformation, the church bell called a shriving bell tolled on Shrove Tuesday to call people to church.
Celebration Breads BETSY OPPENNEER 2003
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Before the Reformation, the church bell called a shriving bell tolled on Shrove Tuesday to call people to church.
Celebration Breads BETSY OPPENNEER 2003
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Before the Reformation, the church bell called a shriving bell tolled on Shrove Tuesday to call people to church.
Celebration Breads BETSY OPPENNEER 2003
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(in which I include psychoanalysis), the idea of shriving oneself of fears and other besetting difficulties has its roots -- as far as Western culture is concerned -- in the confessional, though it seems likely that reflexes of that procedure could be discovered in profound Eastern religions if not in shamanistic practices.
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While I still found it difficult to admit that I might be in serious danger of death, I was beginning to understand the instinct that made condemned prisoners seek shriving on the eve of execution.
Sick Cycle Carousel 2010
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If he has no intention of shriving a sinner but still says and does all that the Church requires, how could the penitent know that it was an "imitation absolution"?
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It is the day for clearing your cupboards of eggs and butter (historically both forbidden, along with other foods such as meat, during Lent), and for shriving (confessing sins and asking forgiveness).
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When the race is over, the runners, officials, townsfolk, and visitors all go to the parish church for the shriving service.
Celebration Breads BETSY OPPENNEER 2003
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When the race is over, the runners, officials, townsfolk, and visitors all go to the parish church for the shriving service.
Celebration Breads BETSY OPPENNEER 2003
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