SHRIVE (shriven, shrove)

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Irregular inflected forms: shriven    , shrove   

 Dictionary entry overview: What does shrive mean? 

• SHRIVE (verb)
  The verb SHRIVE has 1 sense:

1. grant remission of a sin to

  Familiarity information: SHRIVE used as a verb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SHRIVE (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they shrive    ... he / she / it shrives   
Past simple: shrove   
Past participle: shriven   
-ing form: shriving   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Grant remission of a sin to

Classified under:

Verbs of telling, asking, ordering, singing

Synonyms:

absolve; shrive

Context example:

The priest absolved him and told him to say ten Hail Marys

Hypernyms (to "shrive" is one way to...):

forgive (stop blaming or grant forgiveness)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s somebody

 Context examples 

Away to your chamber, sweeting, and keep a blithe face, for she who confesses is shriven.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Yet, ere the last string had twanged, he would be down on his four bones among the stricken, and have them all houseled and shriven, as quick as shelling peas.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Well, well, it is no great matter for my Company, for they were all houseled and shriven ere we left Twynham Castle; and Father Christopher of the Priory gave me his word that they were as fit to march to heaven as to Gascony.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

We were all of one mind that it was best to have the ten thousand with the curse; but in some way they prevailed upon Sir John, so that we were blest and shriven against our will.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)