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

From Time Magazine Archive

And do you, father,” he added to Garnet, “proceed to shrive him.”

From Guy Fawkes or The Gunpowder Treason by William Harrison Ainsworth

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

And Padre Lorenzo came––but he would not shrive her little white soul––” “And the father––?”

From Carmen Ariza by Charles Francis Stocking

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

From Carmen Ariza by Charles Francis Stocking

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

From Time Magazine Archive

On Sunday morning mass was said, and men shrived them.

From The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 07 by Rossiter Johnson

"Father, thou hast shrived many a parting soul!" observed, rather than asked, the other.

From The Bravo by James Fenimore Cooper

Coronach shall wail for thee; Get thee shrived and get thee blest, Get thee ready for thy rest, Elleree!

From Verses for Children and Songs for Music by Juliana Horatia Gatty Ewing

Then I shrived him, and that very morning gave him the Lord's sacred body in the Church of the Sepulchre.

From The Life and Death of Richard Yea-and-Nay by Maurice Henry Hewlett

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

“I swear by heaven, though now I must be shriven for doing so! Therefore come, let us go and together lose our sins.”

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

Brother Ambrose would hug to his soul the secret of his crime until the day of his shriving.

From G-r-r-r...! by Robert Donald Locke

When I lack shriving, I will go to a priest.

From One Snowy Night Long ago at Oxford by M. (Madelaine) Irwin

Lastly, in this island are several Irish cabins covered with thatch, and another for shriving or confession; and there are: separate places assigned for those who come from the four provinces of Ireland.

From The Station; The Party Fight And Funeral; The Lough Derg Pilgrim Traits And Stories Of The Irish Peasantry, The Works of William Carleton, Volume Three by William Carleton

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

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

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