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Definitions
grant remission of a sin to
Word origin
From Middle English schryven, from Old English sċrīfan (“1. to decree, pass judgement, prescribe, 3. (of a priest) to prescribe penance or absolution”), from Proto-West Germanic *skrīban, from late Proto-Germanic *skrībaną, a borrowing from Latin scrībō (“write”).
Used in a sentence
“If he have the condition of a saint and the complexion of a devil, I had rather he should shrive me than wive me.”
“Doubtless he shrives this woman, […] / Else ne'er could he so long protract his speech.”
“I will not madly deem that power Of Earth may shrive me of the sin Unearthly pride hath revell’d in— […]”
Source: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0
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