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shrive
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[ʃrʌɪv], (Verb)
Definitions:
- (of a priest) hear the confession of, assign penance to, and absolve
(e.g: none of her chaplains knew English or French enough to shrive the king)
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Origin
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Old English scrīfan ‘impose as a penance’, of Germanic origin; related to Dutch schrijven and German schreiben ‘write’, from Latin scribere ‘write’
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