What does shrift mean?
Shrift means The act of going to or hearing a religious confession..
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/ʃɹɪft/ · noun
The act of going to or hearing a religious confession..
For seldom did she go to chapel-shrift, / And seldom felt she any hunger-pain; [...]
[Friar:] Be plain, good son, and homely in thy drift. / Riddling confession finds but riddling shrift.
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Shrift means The act of going to or hearing a religious confession..
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For seldom did she go to chapel-shrift, / And seldom felt she any hunger-pain; [...]
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