shrive

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

From Time Magazine Archive

Would you in heaven not assuage and shrive me?

From Porzia by Cale Young Rice

Then he kneeled, and prayed the bishop to shrive and absolve him, beseeching that he might accept him as his brother in the faith.

From Historic Tales, Vol 14 (of 15) The Romance of Reality by Charles Morris

Then he came again this afternoon and said she must die; but he would shrive her for two pesos.

From Carmen Ariza by Charles Francis Stocking

Let him shrive me, for I am not at all points ready to die....

From Idonia: A Romance of Old London by Arthur F. Wallis

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

From Time Magazine Archive

I've shrived a thousand souls—I cannot now absolve my own.

From Debris Selections from Poems by Madge Morris Wagner

The messenger of Carlo Giuntotardi found this unfortunate man with his confessor, by whom he had just been shrived.

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

And when Earl Godrich had so sworn, the King shrived him clean of all his sins.

From Young Folks Treasury, Volume 2 (of 12) by Various

I paid my dues, and shrived me clean, and lived honestly.

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

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

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

From Time Magazine Archive

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

From Time Magazine Archive

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

The child kissed him gleefully and sweetly a dozen times; and perhaps, after all, that was shriving and absolution for James Thompson.

From The Law of the Land by Emerson Hough

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

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

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

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