shrive

No play to make first-night audiences shrive themselves for past sins is American Landscape.

From Time Magazine Archive

Bien, I will go in and shrive his wicked soul!”

From Carmen Ariza by Charles Francis Stocking

"If it might be permitted I would dearly love to shrive them," said the palmer, still hesitating.

From Robin Hood by N. C. (Newell Convers) Wyeth

But,' he said, 'is it not needful to the lay people that cannot thus do, to go shrive them to priests?'

From Fifteenth Century Prose and Verse by Various

"And I shrive you, sir, and bid good fortune go with you," answered the doctor.

From A History of Pendennis, Volume 1 His fortunes and misfortunes, his friends and his greatest enemy by William Makepeace Thackeray

The dying man's ears, nose, mouth, hands, feet by holy unction were shrived.

From Time Magazine Archive

I should not like to be shrived by such a padre!

From The Wing-and-Wing Le Feu-Follet by James Fenimore Cooper

With all other, I have shrived me and been absolved, and there ended the matter.

From The White Lady of Hazelwood A Tale of the Fourteenth Century by W. (William) Rainey

You are my sanctuary, to you my heart bends; the poor pilgrim has come to you to confess and be shrived before he dies.

From The Merchant of Berlin An Historical Novel by L. (Luise) Mühlbach

I shrived him, And he since has died.

From Olla Podrida by Frederick Marryat

Then I grab the lever, record myself with a manly fling, and walk out, shriven, to go to work.

From The New Yorker ● Nov. 5, 2018

I mean the midlife crisis story, in which a man suddenly finds himself shriven of the beliefs that have hitherto defined him.

From New York Times ● Feb. 15, 2017

But 30,000ft above the Atlantic, he is seized by the need to be shriven, and makes his confession to a cassette recorder he addresses as "Father Sony".

From The Guardian ● Feb. 21, 2011

After describing how he was psychiatrically shriven of fear, at least for the time being, Greene quotes Dr. Freud: "Much is won if we succeed in transforming hysterical misery into common unhappiness."

From Time Magazine Archive

So we may well believe that the King’s men were shriven on the night before they fought Something of the young man’s vision had penetrated to his captains and his soldiers.

From "The Once and Future King" by T. H. White

For Italy's 45,000,000 people, surrender came as a national shriving, a chance for national redemption.

From Time Magazine Archive

There are those who suggest irreverently that Miss Nichols is shriving herself before the critics by importing accredited Art.

From Time Magazine Archive

But sometimes he stopped, and bent his head to listen, then lifted his hand in absolution; and Mark knew he was shriving another poor soul.

From Charred Wood by J. Clinton Shepherd

First fee your priest, then have your shriving.

From The Last of the Vikings by John Bowling

That old pirate, Ramon Alvarez, who had probably told a thousand lies, had told the truth at last in his ardent desire for the shriving of Holy Church.

From Doubloons—and the Girl by John Maxwell Forbes

But the neighbouring wives, Who ne'er shrove in their lives,— Such wickedness Sathanas whispers!—

From The Baron's Yule Feast: A Christmas Rhyme by Thomas Cooper

Shrovetide was, in times gone by, a season of such mirth that shroving, or to shrove, signified to be merry.

From Folk-lore of Shakespeare by Thomas Firminger Thiselton-Dyer

To be shriven, or shrove, means to obtain absolution from one's sin.

From Old English Sports, Pastimes and Customs by P. H. (Peter Hampson) Ditchfield

It was I who shrove him when he lay dying of his wounds, and a nobler soul never passed from earth to heaven.

From The Brethren by Henry Rider Haggard