shrift

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• General-American, Received-Pronunciation: /ʃɹɪft/
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• rhymes with -ɪft
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• CMU ARPABET: SH R IH1 F T Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
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From Middle English shrift (“confession to a priest; act or instance of this; sacrament of penance; penance assigned by a priest; penitence, repentance; punishment for sin”) [and other forms], from Old English sċrift (“penance, shrift; something prescribed as punishment, penalty; one who passes sentence, a judge”), from sċrīfan (“of a priest: to prescribe absolution or penance; to pass judgment, ordain, prescribe; to appoint, decree”) (whence shrive), from Proto-Germanic *skrībaną (“to write”), from Latin scrībō (“to write”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *(s)kreybh- (“to scratch, tear”). Equivalent to shrive + -t.

27 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Bulgarian: и́зповед (ízpoved) — act of going to or hearing a religious confession
• Czech: zpověď — act of going to or hearing a religious confession
• Czech: odpuštění — act of going to or hearing a religious confession
• German: Beichte — act of going to or hearing a religious confession
• German: Beichtablegung — act of going to or hearing a religious confession
• German: Beichtgang — act of going to or hearing a religious confession
• Russian: испове́дание (ispovédanije) — act of going to or hearing a religious confession
• Swedish: skriftermål — act of going to or hearing a religious confession
• Swedish: bikt — act of going to or hearing a religious confession
• Bulgarian: и́зповед (ízpoved) — confession to a priest
• Czech: zpověď — confession to a priest
• Finnish: rippi — confession to a priest
• Finnish: ripittäytyminen — confession to a priest
• Georgian: აღსარება (aɣsareba) — confession to a priest
• German: Beichte — confession to a priest
• Russian: и́споведь (íspovedʹ) — confession to a priest
• Swedish: skriftermål — confession to a priest
• Swedish: bikt — confession to a priest
• Bulgarian: опроще́ние (oprošténie) — forgiveness given by a priest after confession
• Czech: odpuštění — forgiveness given by a priest after confession
• Georgian: მიტევება (miṭeveba) — forgiveness given by a priest after confession
• Georgian: შენდობა (šendoba) — forgiveness given by a priest after confession
• German: Sündenerlass — forgiveness given by a priest after confession
• German: Sündenvergebung — forgiveness given by a priest after confession
• German: Absolution — forgiveness given by a priest after confession
• Russian: отпуще́ние грехо́в (otpuščénije grexóv) — forgiveness given by a priest after confession
• Swedish: syndaförlåtelse — forgiveness given by a priest after confession