striving

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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

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 Carleton, William

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

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

To the dames of Avignon All the masters go for wiving; To the dames of Avignon— That shall be their shriving!

From A Night in Avignon by Rice, Cale Young