shrive

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

From Time Magazine Archive

Priests might shrive for broken laws, but for a broken heart what remedy was there?

From The "Genius" by Theodore Dreiser

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

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

From Carmen Ariza by Charles Francis Stocking

Saint Petronila shrive me! when we became most intimate, and after much beating about the bush, I discovered that his master— Perez.

From Olla Podrida by Frederick Marryat

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

From Time Magazine Archive

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

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

From The Optimist's Good Morning by Florence Hobart Perin

It was the same old prelate, a relative of the Krzyckis and the Zbyltowskis, who previously shrived Pani Krzycki.

From Whirlpools A Novel of Modern Poland by Henryk Sienkiewicz

He had affirmed his innocence to the end, had been shrived, had gone to the gallows with a dauntless tread, and there were palm branches on his coffin.

From Myths & Legends of our New Possessions & Protectorate by Charles M. (Charles Montgomery) Skinner

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

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

The night before the battle should be spent, not in feasting, but in prayer and lowly shriving of our souls before the great Confessor.

From Expositions of Holy Scripture Deuteronomy, Joshua, Judges, Ruth, and First Book of Samuel, Second Samuel, First Kings, and Second Kings chapters I to VII by Alexander Maclaren

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

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

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

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