shrive
1 synonym for shrive, grouped by meaning and by how common each one is.
Verb — To listen to or take a person's confession of sins.
Synonyms
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Etymology
Came into English via Middle English schryven, which developed from Old English sċrīfan (‘1. to decree, pass judgement, prescribe, 3. (of a priest) to prescribe penance or absolution’), from Proto-West Germanic *skrīban, from late Proto-Germanic *skrībaną, itself borrowed from Latin scrībō (‘write’). Compare West Frisi...
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