shrift

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. isim The act of going to or hearing a religious confession.

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

2. isim Confession to a priest.
3. isim Forgiveness given by a priest after confession; remission.

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