shrift
English
/ʃɹɪft/
noun
Definitions
- The act of going to or hearing a religious confession.
- Confession to a priest.
- (obsolete) Forgiveness given by a priest after confession; remission.
Etymology
Inherited from Old English sċrift.
Origin
Old English
sċrift
Gloss
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- ear English
- earshrift English
- father English
- shriftfather English
- sċrift Old English
- afskrift Danish
- festskrift Danish
- kileskrift Danish
- lydskrift Danish
- nodeskrift Danish
- skrift Danish
- skriftform Danish
- skriftlig Danish
- skriftrulle Danish
- smædeskrift Danish
- tidsskrift Danish
- schrift Middle Low German