And a search of t’internet tells me that shrove is derived from shrive, meaning to confess your sins to cleanse yourself before lent. From Wordnik.com. [une fée] Reference
But you must shrive me, Auk, and you must do it tonight. From Wordnik.com. [Nightside The Long Sun]
Confessing to the poor old woman, who cannot shrive them!. From Wordnik.com. [Clarissa Harlowe] Reference
Heaven, comfort him living, -- shrive him Thyself in dying!. From Wordnik.com. [The Maid of the Whispering Hills] Reference
Send no shaven monks to shrive me, close the doors against their cries. From Wordnik.com. [The Voyage of Magellan] Reference
"Nay, I know I'm dying; 'twas a fatal fall, and I cannot shrive myself.". From Wordnik.com. [Heiress of Haddon] Reference
For they shrive them and housel them evermore once or twice in the week. From Wordnik.com. [The Travels of Sir John Mandeville] Reference
He bore in his hand the sainted pyx, and commenced to shrive the dying girl. From Wordnik.com. [A Love Story] Reference
“And I shrive you, sir, and bid good fortune go with you,” answered the Doctor. From Wordnik.com. [The History of Pendennis] Reference
I will shrive thee right easily, and the penance shall be pleasant enough, I assure thee. From Wordnik.com. [Heiress of Haddon] Reference
And then he kneeled down on his knee, and prayed the Bishop to shrive him and assoil him. From Wordnik.com. [Le Morte d'Arthur: Sir Thomas Malory's book of King Arthur and of his noble knights of the Round table] Reference
Horn; it's too personal a matter to broach save in shriving, and I know you too well to shrive you. From Wordnik.com. [Exodus From The Long Sun]
Therefore, as I know I may not live, do thou shrive me, good father, for I must needs pass out of this world. '. From Wordnik.com. [King Arthur's Knights The Tales Re-told for Boys & Girls] Reference
To shrive their souls ere they joined in the fray. From Wordnik.com. [The Works of Lord Byron. Vol. 3] Reference
First I must shrive them with some cleansing thing. From Wordnik.com. [The Iphigenia in Tauris of Euripides] Reference
And his own brother Lars has been sent to shrive him. From Wordnik.com. [Master Olof : a Drama in Five Acts] Reference
So when the spring of the world shall shrive our stain. From Wordnik.com. [Georgian Poetry 1916-17 Edited by Sir Edward Howard Marsh] Reference
But there shall come a king and he shall shrive you all. From Wordnik.com. [The Profits of Religion, Fifth Edition] Reference
Shrieve, shrive, hear confession and pronounce absolution. From Wordnik.com. [Selections from Five English Poets] Reference
Father Bastian refused to shrive me, what should come of me?. From Wordnik.com. [All's Well Alice's Victory] Reference
"And I shrive you, sir, and bid good fortune go with you," answered the. From Wordnik.com. [The History of Pendennis] Reference
"O! madam, I must pray your patience; I wish you to shrive a penitent.". From Wordnik.com. [Vivian Grey] Reference
Did ever "Father Confessor" have so sweet and so wilful a sinner to shrive!. From Wordnik.com. [The Jessica Letters: An Editor's Romance] Reference
Then, as his breath grew feebler, he called impatiently, "shrive me! shrive me!". From Wordnik.com. [The Luck of Roaring Camp and Other Tales With Condensed Novels, Spanish and American Legends, and Earlier Papers] Reference
I pray you let me go upon my way, for there are those whom I would shrive and housel. From Wordnik.com. [Sir Nigel] Reference
But first, as you may perhaps remember, he went at night to shrive the hermit of Gouda. From Wordnik.com. [The Cloister and the Hearth] Reference
And then he kneeled down on his knees, and prayed the bishop to shrive him and assoil him. From Wordnik.com. [Studies from Court and Cloister: being essays, historical and literary dealing mainly with subjects relating to the XVIth and XVIIth centuries] Reference
"Who will shrive the poor wretch, if you have come away from him?" he asked reproachfully. From Wordnik.com. [Robin Hood] Reference
"Confess, dear sinner; I will shrive you and grant absolution for the past, whatever it may be.". From Wordnik.com. [Moods] Reference
"Your Excellency, let me at least shrive this poor wretch's soul ere it be hurled into eternity.". From Wordnik.com. [Robin Hood] Reference
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