shrive

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

From Time Magazine Archive

For the love o' God, a priest to shrive a dying sinner.

From Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland Volume 4 by Various

Thus shall we rest for evermore, My brothers dear and I: Haste, cleric, haste, baptise and shrive, For death at last is nigh!

From Old Celtic Romances by Unknown

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

The poor wretch made answer for himself, crying out piteously and in a choking voice, for a priest to shrive him.

From Historical Romances: Under the Red Robe, Count Hannibal, A Gentleman of France by Stanley J. Weyman

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

From Time Magazine Archive

So he shrived the host, and at the end they said "Amen" in one voice.

From King Alfred's Viking A Story of the First English Fleet by Charles W. (Charles Watts) Whistler

The past has shrived and buried deep, All yesterdays; there let them sleep.

From The Optimist's Good Morning by Florence Hobart Perin

And before they entered their cellar, we are assured, they washed their hands of all intrigues and were shrived of their sins by the Maronite priest of the Colony.

From The Book of Khalid by Ameen Fares Rihani

You're on the wrong track, young man," he said; "I have just shrived the girl.

From Peter the Priest by Mór Jókai

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

She died, still pregnant, but properly shriven, and within a minute Dr. Corbit had her abdomen open and a 34-lb. girl in an incubator.

From Time Magazine Archive

As he galloped away, Hamlet cried after him, “Make haste in your errand, for remember, I will be shriven today.”

From "Ophelia" by Lisa Klein

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

With louder summons ring the rampart-bell, And haste the shriving father from his cell; A soldier's heart rejoices in alarms: And let the trump at midnight sound to arms!

From The Poetical Works of William Lisle Bowles, Vol. 1 With Memoir, Critical Dissertation, and Explanatory Notes by George Gilfillan by George Gilfillan

The burgomaster hid in the church, disguised as a priest, and pretended to be shriving some women when the crash came, but it did not save him.

From Hero Tales of the Far North by Jacob A. (Jacob August) Riis

In every regiment priests were praying, preaching, shriving, holding up the host and the cup.

From The History of England, from the Accession of James II — Volume 4 by Thomas Babington Macaulay, Baron Macaulay

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

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

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

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