Usually means: Grant absolution for sins confessed.
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  1. shrive: Merriam-Webster
  2. shrive: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. shrive: Collins English Dictionary
  4. shrive: Vocabulary.com
  5. Shrive, shrive: Wordnik
  6. shrive: Wiktionary
  7. shrive: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  8. shrive: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  9. shrive: Infoplease Dictionary
  10. shrive: Dictionary.com
  11. shrive: Online Etymology Dictionary
  12. Shrive: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  13. shrive: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  14. shrive: Rhymezone
  15. Shrive: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  16. shrive: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  17. shrive: FreeDictionary.org
  18. shrive: The Phrontistery - A Dictionary of Obscure Words
  19. shrive: Mnemonic Dictionary
  20. shrive: TheFreeDictionary.com
  21. shrive: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language

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Definitions from Wiktionary (shrive)

verb:  (religion, transitive and intransitive) To hear or receive a confession (of sins etc.).
verb:  (transitive) To free from guilt, to absolve.
verb:  (religion, transitive) To prescribe penance or absolution.
verb:  (religion, intransitive or reflexive) To confess, and receive absolution.

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