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
At the same time he entreated that a Catholic priest should be sent for to shrive him—that he had been brought up in the Catholic faith, but that he had neglected religion when in health.
From The Strange Story of Harper's Ferry With Legends of the Surrounding Country by Barry, Joseph
"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)
"A priest, a priest," sayes Aldingar,185 "While I am a man alive; "A priest, a priest," sayes Aldingar, "Me for to houzle and shrive.
From English and Scottish Ballads (volume 3 of 8) by Various
By our Lady, I will go with you!" he cried, "to shrive the dying.
From Corse de Leon, Volume I (of 2) or, The Brigand; a Romance by James, G. P. R. (George Payne Rainsford)
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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