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单词 shrift-father
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shrift-fathern.

Forms: Also Middle English schrefvader, Middle English schryffader.
Etymology: < shrift n. + father n. (sense 7a). Compare Old Norse skriptafaðer.Previous versions of the OED give the stress as: ˈshrift-ˌfather.
Obsolete exc. archaic.
A confessor.
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society > faith > church government > member of the clergy > confessor > [noun]
shriftc897
fatherOE
shrift-father?c1225
penancerc1300
confessor1340
shriver1340
penitencera1387
penitentiary?a1475
pentionary1560
confessary1629
confessarius1661
scruple-drawer1701
soul friend1891
?c1225 (?a1200) Ancrene Riwle (Cleo. C.vi) (1972) 235 Inoch is to segge swa. þet þe schrift fader witerliche understonde hwat þu wule meanen.
1340 Ayenbite (1866) 38 Hi ssollen do be þe rede of holy cherche oþer be hire ssrifte-uaderes.
a1387 J. Trevisa tr. R. Higden Polychron. (St. John's Cambr.) (1876) VI. 457 Kyng Edredus..sente to his schriftfader [MS. γ schrefvader] Donstan.
c1430 Pol. Rel. & L. Poems (1903) 229 To do such penaunce..As þi schrift-fadir þee councellis.
a1450 J. Myrc Instr. to Par. Priests 233 How and where he doth þat synne, To hys schryffader he mote þat mynne.
1533 J. Gau in tr. C. Pedersen Richt Vay To Rdr. sig. Aii Quhou thay sal rekkine al thair sinnis to thair schrift fader.
1600 E. Fairfax tr. T. Tasso Godfrey of Bulloigne xi. ix. 197 In close and priuate cell, Where (but shrift fathers) neuer mankinde treades.
1853 D. Rock Church our Fathers III. ii. xi. 19 The penitential, a book which only shrift-fathers..might read.
1882 F. J. Child Eng. & Sc. Pop. Ballads I. i. 26/1 Louise then tries her shrift-father.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1914; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
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