Definition of Shriving

1. n. Shrift; confession.

Definition of Shriving

1. Verb. (third-person singular of shrive) ¹

2. Noun. The hearing of a confession of sins. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Shriving

1. shrive [v] - See also: shrive

Lexicographical Neighbors of Shriving

shrivel
shrivel up
shriveled
shriveler
shrivelers
shriveling
shrivelled
shriveller
shrivellers
shrivelling
shrivels
shriven
shriver
shrivers
shrives
shriving (current term)
shrivings
shroff
shroffage
shroffed
shroffing
shroffs
shrog
shrogs
shroom
shroomed
shroomer
shroomers
shroomhead
shroomheads

Literary usage of Shriving

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Teacher as Artist: An Essay in Education as an Aesthetic Process by Herman Harrell Horne (1917)
"The process of shriving involves confession, penance, and absolution. The confession covers lapses from the aesthetic ideal, the penance includes renewed ..."

2. Thómas Saga Erkibyskups: A Life of Archbishop Thomas Becket, in Icelandic by Eiríkr Magnússon (1883)
"OF THE LETTER OF THE LORD POPE WHEN HE ORDAINED shriving. Among the bishops Bartholomew of Exeter mourned most chiefly for the death of the holy Thomas, ..."

3. Filippo Strozzi: A History of the Last Days of the Old Italian Liberty by Thomas Adolphus Trollope (1860)
"A last shriving.—A confessor from St. Mark's. —Father Cyprian's opinion of conspiracy.—Cardinal Giovanni de' Medici's journey to Rome. ..."

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