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shrive🔊

(religion) To hear or receive a confession (of sins etc.).

To free from guilt, to absolve.

💬 Quotations
She said that he had a fair sweet death through God His goodness with mass-priest to be shriven, holy housel and sick men’s oil to his limbs.

(religion) To prescribe penance or absolution.

(religion) To confess, and receive absolution.

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