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Definition of Shriving
1. n. Shrift; confession.
Definition of Shriving
1. Verb. (third-person singular of shrive) ¹
2. Noun. The hearing of a confession of sins. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Shriving
1. shrive [v] - See also: shrive
Lexicographical Neighbors of Shriving
Literary usage of Shriving
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Teacher as Artist: An Essay in Education as an Aesthetic Process by Herman Harrell Horne (1917)
"The process of shriving involves confession, penance, and absolution. The confession
covers lapses from the aesthetic ideal, the penance includes renewed ..."
2. Thómas Saga Erkibyskups: A Life of Archbishop Thomas Becket, in Icelandic by Eiríkr Magnússon (1883)
"OF THE LETTER OF THE LORD POPE WHEN HE ORDAINED shriving. Among the bishops
Bartholomew of Exeter mourned most chiefly for the death of the holy Thomas, ..."
3. Filippo Strozzi: A History of the Last Days of the Old Italian Liberty by Thomas Adolphus Trollope (1860)
"A last shriving.—A confessor from St. Mark's. —Father Cyprian's opinion of
conspiracy.—Cardinal Giovanni de' Medici's journey to Rome. ..."
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