Nominal Forms
Infinitive: to shrive
Participle: shrived
Gerund: shriving
Cognates
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Indicative
Present
| I | shrive |
| you | shrive |
| he;she;it | shrives |
| we | shrive |
| you | shrive |
| they | shrive |
Perfect
| I | have shrived |
| you | have shrived |
| he;she;it | has shrived |
| we | have shrived |
| you | have shrived |
| they | have shrived |
Past
| I | shrived |
| you | shrived |
| he;she;it | shrived |
| we | shrived |
| you | shrived |
| they | shrived |
Pluperfect
| I | had shrived |
| you | had shrived |
| he;she;it | had shrived |
| we | had shrived |
| you | had shrived |
| they | had shrived |
Future
| I | will shrive |
| you | will shrive |
| he;she;it | will shrive |
| we | will shrive |
| you | will shrive |
| they | will shrive |
Future Perfect
| I | will have shrived |
| you | will have shrived |
| he;she;it | will have shrived |
| we | will have shrived |
| you | will have shrived |
| they | will have shrived |
Subjunctive
Present
| I | shrive |
| you | shrive |
| he;she;it | shrive |
| we | shrive |
| you | shrive |
| they | shrive |
Perfect
| I | have shrived |
| you | have shrived |
| he;she;it | have shrived |
| we | have shrived |
| you | have shrived |
| they | have shrived |
Imperfect
| I | shrived |
| you | shrived |
| he;she;it | shrived |
| we | shrived |
| you | shrived |
| they | shrived |
Pluperfect
| I | had shrived |
| you | had shrived |
| he;she;it | had shrived |
| we | had shrived |
| you | had shrived |
| they | had shrived |
Conditional
Present
| I | would shrive |
| you | would shrive |
| he;she;it | would shrive |
| we | would shrive |
| you | would shrive |
| they | would shrive |
Perfect
| I | would have shrived |
| you | would have shrived |
| he;she;it | would have shrived |
| we | would have shrived |
| you | would have shrived |
| they | would have shrived |
Imperative
| you | shrive |
| we | Let's shrive |
| you | shrive |
Verbs conjugated like 'shrive'
abacinate,
abalienate,
abase,
abate,
abbreviate,
abdicate,
abduce,
aberrate,
aberuncate,
abirritate,
abjudge,
abjudicate,
abjugate,
abjure,
ablactate,
ablaqueate,
able,
ablegate,
abligate,
abnegate, etc. (List truncated at 20 verbs)
Verbs similar to 'shrive'
Synonyms & Antonyms
Synonyms
- to admit to the truth
- acknowledge, admit, assent, avow, beknow, come clean, concede, confess, fess, fess up, front up, make a clean breast, own, own up, sing, spill one's guts, spill the beans, step forward, talk, tell all, unbosom
Additional Information
Phrasal Verbs
Etymology
1. From Middle English schryven, from Old English sċrīfan (“1. to decree, pass judgement, prescribe, 3. (of a priest) to prescribe penance or absolution”), from Proto-West Germanic *skrīban, from late Proto-Germanic *skrībaną, a borrowing from Latin scrībō (“write”).
2. Compare West Frisian skriuwe (“to write”), Low German schrieven (“to write”), Dutch schrijven (“to write”), German schreiben (“to write”), Danish, Norwegian Bokmål, and Norwegian Nynorsk skrive (“to write”), Swedish skriva (“to write”), Icelandic skrifa (“to write”). More at scribe and scribble. See: Proto-Germanic '
*skrībaną', Latin '
scrībō', Low Saxon 'schrieven', Dutch '
schrijven', German, old spelling '
schreiben', Swedish '
skriva', Icelandic '
skrifa'.
Verbs referencing "shrive"
Faroese
skriva, Norwegian, nynorsk
skriva, Swedish
skriva, Galician
escribir, Danish
skrive, Norwegian
skrive, Norwegian, nynorsk
skrive, Portuguese
escrever, Luxembourgish
schreiwen, Low Saxon schrieven, Alemannic German
schriibe, Cimbrian sraiban.
Sample Sentences
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If he have the condition of a saint and the complexion of a devil, I had rather he should shrive me than wive me. [c. 1596–1598 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Merchant of Venice”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene iii]:]
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Doubtless he shrives this woman, […] / Else ne'er could he so long protract his speech. [c. 1597 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The First Part of Henry the Fourth, […]”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene ii]:]
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I will not madly deem that power
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Of Earth may shrive me of the sin
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Unearthly pride hath revell’d in— […] [1829, Edgar Allan Poe, “Tamerlane”, in Al Aaraaf, Tamerlane and Minor Poems:]
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My sins as scarlet are; let me go hence, / And in some cloister's school of penitence, / Across those stones, that pave the way to heaven, / Walk barefoot, till my guilty soul is shriven! [1863 November 23, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, “The Sicilian’s Tale. King Robert of Sicily.”, in Tales of a Wayside Inn, Boston, Mass.: Ticknor and Fields, →OCLC, page 67:]
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c. 1798-1845, unknown author, The Croppy Boy
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'Twas a good thought, boy, to come here and shrive.