SHRIFT

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does shrift mean? 

• SHRIFT (noun)
  The noun SHRIFT has 1 sense:

1. the act of being shriven

  Familiarity information: SHRIFT used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SHRIFT (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The act of being shriven

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Hypernyms ("shrift" is a kind of...):

confession ((Roman Catholic Church) the act of a penitent disclosing his sinfulness before a priest in the sacrament of penance in the hope of absolution)

 Context examples 

He is on his way to Villefranche, and short will be the shrift of any Jacks who come into his hands, for he is a man of short speech.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

I pray you that you will buy one, for war is bloody work, and the end is sudden with little time for thought or shrift.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Back and back still his foeman bent him, until, with a roar of pain and of fury, the giant clanged his full length upon the boards, while the glimmer of a knife before the bars of his helmet warned him that short would be his shrift if he moved.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)