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

From Time Magazine Archive

Let him shrive me, for I am not at all points ready to die....

From Idonia: A Romance of Old London by Arthur F. Wallis

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

And do you, father,” he added to Garnet, “proceed to shrive him.”

From Guy Fawkes or The Gunpowder Treason by William Harrison Ainsworth

Then he kneeled, and prayed the bishop to shrive and absolve him, beseeching that he might accept him as his brother in the faith.

From Historic Tales, Vol 14 (of 15) The Romance of Reality by Charles Morris

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

From Time Magazine Archive

The next year, when the earl found himself in the power of his foes at Evesham, the aged bishop of Worcester again shrived his host before the battle.

From The English Church in the Middle Ages by William Hunt

The Lady Fitz-Eustace had a fair copy of the deed, purporting to be sent by the holy confessor who shrived the testator in his extremity.

From Traditions of Lancashire, Volume 1 by John Roby

And I believe my love is shrived in heaven, And I believe that I shall soon be free.

From Poems by John Hay

And before they entered their cellar, we are assured, they washed their hands of all intrigues and were shrived of their sins by the Maronite priest of the Colony.

From The Book of Khalid by Ameen Fares Rihani

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

As he galloped away, Hamlet cried after him, “Make haste in your errand, for remember, I will be shriven today.”

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

"How can I die better than shriving a fellow sinner?"

From And Thus He Came A Christmas Fantasy by Cyrus Townsend Brady

Just look at any man who hasn't a pipe stuck into his mouth, and tell me if he doesn't look like a judge pronouncing judgment, or a priest shriving a penitent?

From Eyes Like the Sea by Mór Jókai

“They need little shriving that are opposite my culverin,” said this strange priest. 

From A Monk of Fife by Andrew Lang

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

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

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