shrive

VERB
  1. grant remission of a sin to
    The priest absolved him and told him to say ten Hail Marys
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How To Use shrive In A Sentence

  • When alive, the spiders kept on the gaster-only diet initially grew but then shriveled, while those eating the head, legs and thoraces thrived, with some tripling their weight. Why Spiders Always Devour Ants Head First | Impact Lab
  • The crunch leaves of autumn had shrivelled and the sun was a lazy, dusky peach colour.
  • This ought to have been fine - if Phaethon had not been like a rock-star's child with a new red Ferrari, scorching off the track, shrivelling crops, turning forest to desert, doubtless melting ice-caps if the Greeks had known about ice-caps, and only stopping when Zeus called a halt with a well-aimed world-saving thunderbolt. Peter Stothard - Times Online - WBLG:
  • And of everych of these sins it behoveth them to be shriven of their priests, and to pay great sum of silver for their penance. The Travels of Sir John Mandeville
  • And behold, he shrivelled and withered under their eyes, and became a small handful of grey dust and glass powder.
  • It spends most of its life buried deep in the soil in a shriveled, torpid state.
  • Parlez-vous français, mesdemoiselles!" cried madame, and we filed out into the dusty street, at the corner of which sat another of our visible tokens of the coming of the season of flowers; a dirty, shriveled old Irishwoman, full of benedictions and beggary, who, all through the summer, sold "posies" to the passers-by. Six to Sixteen: A Story for Girls
  • Without the direct intervention of God's angels, William cannot recognize it and be shriven of it.
  • When her remaining lung shrivels in its cage, and her guts collapse; when myoelectric demons flood her sinuses and middle ears with isotonic saline. Starfish
  • Like a tiny seed, the strength of his convictions slowly began to shrivel. SEA MUSIC
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