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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

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

For the sake of Simon Peter, Who so gladly would us shrive, We are walking in the sunlight, We are breathing and alive.

From Two Fishers, and Other Poems by Herbert Edward Palmer

"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

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

The Lady Fitz-Eustace had a fair copy of the deed, purporting to be sent by the holy confessor who shrived the testator in his extremity.

From Traditions of Lancashire, Volume 1 by John Roby

I do, indeed, know the lady," he said, "and even when last at court, on this errand of Colon's, their own confessor being ill, I shrived her, as well as my royal mistress.

From Mercedes of Castile The Voyage to Cathay by J. Fenimore Cooper

Thou say'st true, father; that is an offence which should never be forgotten, though so often shrived since its commission.

From Mercedes of Castile The Voyage to Cathay by J. Fenimore Cooper

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

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

It would be difficult to find in history a more offensive document, and its iniquity was enhanced by the short shriving time which it gave either Servia or Europe.

From The New York Times Current History of the European War, Vol. 1, January 9, 1915 What Americans Say to Europe by Various

But of that I will speak anon, at my shriving, as is meet.”

From Gathering of Brother Hilarius by Michael Fairless

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

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