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

From Time Magazine Archive

"If it might be permitted I would dearly love to shrive them," said the palmer, still hesitating.

From Robin Hood by N. C. (Newell Convers) Wyeth

Katharine said: 'Why, I pray God that you may die on the green grass yet, with time for a priest to shrive you.

From The Fifth Queen And How She Came to Court by Ford Madox Ford

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

A father of the neighbouring monastery, Attracted hither by the clash of swords, And but in time to shrive a dying man.

From Olla Podrida by Frederick Marryat

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

From Time Magazine Archive

On Sunday morning mass was said, and men shrived them.

From The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 07 by Rossiter Johnson

"I shrived her, your Grace, before she died."

From By What Authority? by Robert Hugh Benson

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

From Debris Selections from Poems by Madge Morris Wagner

A low whisper, occasionally sounding,-assured her that someone was at the confessional; and soon the palmer, who was now shrived, knelt at her side.

From Sketches by Benjamin Disraeli, Earl of Beaconsfield

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

Christendom's faithful, nearly as apprehensive, crowded French churches in record numbers to be shriven.

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

First fee your priest, then have your shriving.

From The Last of the Vikings by John Bowling

"Charles treats us as mendicants; but if he should chance to see the coffers of our order, he would know we had received something else beside a crust for shriving."

From Mistress Penwick by Dutton Payne

“There is, indeed, cause enough for the shriving of souls of sinners, Father, in that country, as I hear, and a holy man like you will be right welcome to many.”

From A Monk of Fife by Andrew Lang

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

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