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Definition of Shrivings
1. shriving [n] - See also: shriving
Lexicographical Neighbors of Shrivings
Literary usage of Shrivings
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Ecclesiastical History of Ireland: From the Earliest Period to the by William Dool Killen (1875)
"... to live upon the gain of masses, dirges, shrivings, and such like trumpery,
godly abolished by your Majesty. . . . In many places the very walls of the ..."
2. The Ecclesiastical History of Ireland: From the Earliest Period to the by William Dool Killen (1875)
"He immediately afterwards, in the same way, suppresses what is said of " the gain
of masses, dirges, shrivings, and such like trumpery. ..."
3. History of the Christian Church by John Fletcher Hurst (1900)
"... are very small; and are wont to live upon the gain of masses, dirges, shrivings,
and such like trumpery, godly abolished by your majesty. ..."
4. History of the Christian Church by John Fletcher Hurst (1900)
"... God knoweth, are very small; and are wont to live upon the gain of masses,
dirges, shrivings, and such like trumpery, godly abolished by your majesty. ..."
5. The Knickerbocker: Or, New-York Monthly Magazine by Charles Fenno Hoffman, Timothy Flint, Lewis Gaylord Clark, Kinahan Cornwallis, John Holmes Agnew (1852)
"There may indeed have been some objectionable things in that era of felicity,
such as unprovoked and bloody raids, and mercenary shrivings ; the mass may ..."
6. The Knickerbocker: Or, New-York Monthly Magazine by Charles Fenno Hoffman, Timothy Flint, Lewis Gaylord Clark, Kinahan Cornwallis, John Holmes Agnew (1852)
"There may indeed Lave been some objectionable things in that era of felicity,
such as unprovoked and bloody raids, and mercenary shrivings ; the mass may ..."
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