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Definition of Shrifts
1. shrift [n] - See also: shrift
Lexicographical Neighbors of Shrifts
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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