Definition of Shrifts

1. Noun. (plural of shrift) ¹

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Definition of Shrifts

1. shrift [n] - See also: shrift

Lexicographical Neighbors of Shrifts

shriekings
shriekling
shrieklings
shrieks
shriekt
shrieky
shrieval
shrievalties
shrievalty
shrieve
shrieved
shrieves
shrieving
shrift
shriftfather
shrifts (current term)
shright
shrights
shrike
shriked
shrikelike
shrikes
shriking
shrill
shrilled
shriller
shrillest
shrillier
shrilling
shrilling(a)

Literary usage of Shrifts

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Antiquary: A Magazine Devoted to the Study of the Past by Edward Walford, John Charles Cox, George Latimer Apperson (1887)
"The prolonged shrifts and purgations which intending combatants had to go through were accompanied by a course of lessons in the arm they were to wield, ..."

2. The Poetical Works of Edmund Spenser by Edmund Spenser (1860)
"... Or that all men, which anie master serve, Good garments for their service should deserve; i Whilome, formerly. s shrifts, confessions. Ver. 452. ..."

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