shrive

"Then you're going to have to shrive me first so I can do it right.

I thought you might want me to shrive you, too.

I wanted to shrive the dead, but they pushed me away."

Oh, that I could find a priest to shrive me!"

"I won't have to ask forgiveness for that when you shrive me.

"God shrive it when I find the evil thing!

"He has gone to shrive the cottar," Agnes told her.

To secure my intercession with the priest to shrive him where he died, the man told me all.

I'd seen him earlier that evening, and shriven him.

I'm going to shrive Chenille, and that's far more important."

"Shrive me, I told you; that will help some."

Am I a priest now, waiting at your beck and call to shrive you?'

Do what you will with my body, but grant me first a priest to shrive me!"

Get you to shrive me, I mean.

To shrive is a religious term meaning "to give absolution to, after penance."

Father Hugo says that in time of war, even if there is no priest to shrive you, your sins can be forgiven this way.

And the Trouser of Sanctity, has anyone bothered to shrive it?

"I'll come Scylsday, day after tomorrow, and you can shrive me then.

But you must shrive me, Auk, and you must do it tonight.

"Your pardon, " he said, "but it is time to shrive the prisoners."

Go and shrive your dead, man.

"You mean the kind that has you shrive her, Patera?

He prayed to Isis to be pitiful, to forgive, to receive his soul and shrive it.

Krendler maintained a tame conscience with which to shrive himself.

"We have magical powers no longer, but only shrive us, and we shall throw our bodies against their swords!"