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Meaning of shrieve | Babel Free

Noun CEFR B1

/ʃɹiːv/

Definitions

Noun. [B1]

Examples

“Please it your Majesty, here is the shrieve of Northamptonshire, with certain persons that of late committed a riot, and have appealed to your Majesty beseeching your Highness for special cause to hear them.”

“I know him: he was a botcher's 'prentice in Paris, from whence he was whipped for getting the shrieve's fool with child: a dumb innocent that could not say him nay.”

CEFR level

B1

Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B1 vocabulary — intermediate level.

See also

Shrift shrift father shriftfather Shrifts shright Shrigley