Shrift

/ʃɹɪft/

Synonyms for "shrift" (31 found)

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Related word relations

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More general

6 entries
confessionconfessional practiceleniencyreligious ritespeech acttreatment

More specific

3 entries
long shriftshort shriftshriving

Collocations

4 entries
grant shrifthear shriftlong shriftshort shrift

Inflections

1 entries

Derivations

1 entries

Sample sentences

3 total sentences available.

Tatoeba + Wiktionary

Tom begged Mary for a second chance, but she gave him short shrift.

Source: tatoeba (10104685)

For seldom did she go to chapel-shrift, / And seldom felt she any hunger-pain; [...]

Source: wiktionary

[Friar:] Be plain, good son, and homely in thy drift. / Riddling confession finds but riddling shrift.

Source: wiktionary

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