Meaning of Shrift | Babel Free

Definitions

1. The act of going to or hearing a religious confession.
   countable, uncountable
2. Confession to a priest.
   countable, uncountable
3. Forgiveness given by a priest after confession; remission.
   countable, obsolete, uncountable

Equivalents

Examples

“For seldom did she go to chapel-shrift, / And seldom felt she any hunger-pain; [...]”

“[Friar:] Be plain, good son, and homely in thy drift. / Riddling confession finds but riddling shrift.”

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