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Phrases. at, in shrift: at, in confession.
Undergoing or doing penance. Also: appropriate to penance or fasting days; Lenten. Cf. penance, n. 3b. Obsolete.
(of a pilgrim, etc.) wearing shoes partly filled with peas as a penance.