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shrive: to hear a person's confession and give him absolution Err. II. ii. 212 “I'll . . . you of a thousand idle pranks,” Mer.V. I. ii. 142, Rom. II. iv. 196 “s-'d and married” ; gerund used attrib. R3 III. ii. 113 “shriving work,” Ham. V. ii. 47 “Not shriving-time allow'”
A Shakespeare Glossary. C. T. Onions. Oxford. Clarendon Press. 1911.
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