| 单词 | to go, come to shrift |
| 释义 | > as lemmasto go, come to shrift 4. to go, come to shrift: to resort to confession, seek the ministry of a priest in the sacrament of penance. Also †to seek to shrift. ΘΚΠ society > faith > worship > sacrament > confession > make confession [verb (intransitive)] to go, come to shrift1008 shrivea1300 to be confessed ofc1400 to seek to shriftc1400 confess1597 1008 Laws Æthelred v. xxii Gyme his Cristendomes georne & gewunige gelomlice to scrifte. a1023 Wulfstan Homilies xxxix. 181 Ga man to scrifte. c1175 Lamb. Hom. 25 Ic wulle gan to scrifte for scome alswa doð oðer men. c1250 Kent. Serm. in Old Eng. Misc. 32 Comeþ to srifte, forleted yure sennen, and þer of bieþ a-soiled. c1315 Shoreham i. 948 Wanne he ne may to schryfte come. c1400 Rule St. Benet (verse) 988 To be swift Eftir our sin to seke to schrift. 1583 W. Fulke Def. Transl. Script. vi. 192 To make the ignorant beleeue that the people went to auricular shrift. 1590 Tarltons Newes out of Purgatorie 13 The next time Lisetta came to shrift, after she had made her confession, and had receiued absolution. 1597 W. Shakespeare Romeo & Juliet ii. iii. 170 Bid her get leaue to morrow morning To come to shrift . View more context for this quotation 1630 T. Dekker Second Pt. Honest Whore v. ii. 275 Let the Gentlewoman alone, she's going to shrift. a1680 S. Butler Genuine Remains (1759) I. 259 In the Church of Rome to go to Shrift Is but to put the Soul on a clean Shift. 1880 T. E. Webb tr. J. W. von Goethe Faust iii. vii [He] goes To shrift with nothing to disclose. < as lemmas |
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