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What does shrive mean?

Looking for the meaning or definition of the word shrive? Here's what it means.

Verb
  1. (transitive and intransitive) To hear or receive a confession (of sins etc.)
  2. (transitive) To prescribe penance or absolution.
  3. (intransitive or reflexive) To confess, and receive absolution.
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Who will shrive these poor fellows, then, if you have turned your back upon them?
For they shrive them and housel them evermore once or twice in the week.
If he have the condition of a saint and the complexion of a devil, I had rather he should shrive me than wive me.
In the week immediately before lent everyone shall go to his confessor and confess his deeds and the confessor shall so shrive him and make pancakes.
I pray you let me go upon my way, for there are those whom I would shrive and housel.
It's hardly irrelevant that shrive is a Middle English word meaning to prescribe penance.

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