shrive
Example Sentences
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No play to make first-night audiences shrive themselves for past sins is American Landscape.
From Time Magazine Archive
And Padre Lorenzo came––but he would not shrive her little white soul––” “And the father––?”
From Carmen Ariza by Stocking, Charles Francis
"Let me, at the least, shrive this man's soul ere it be hurled into eternity," said the palmer, stepping forward.
From Robin Hood by Wyeth, N. C. (Newell Convers)
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 Marryat, Frederick
Priests might shrive for broken laws, but for a broken heart what remedy was there?
From The "Genius" by Dreiser, Theodore
Vocabulary lists containing shrive
"The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet," Vocabulary from Act 1
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The Merchant of Venice
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Mardi Gras: Faith
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