shrive

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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”). 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.

8 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Bulgarian: изповядвам (izpovjadvam) — hear or receive a confession
• Czech: vyzpovídat — hear or receive a confession
• German: die Beichte abnehmen — hear or receive a confession
• Polish: spowiadać — hear or receive a confession
• Polish: wyspowiadać — hear or receive a confession
• German: die Vergebung der Sünden gewähren — prescribe penance or absolution
• German: die Absolution erteilen — prescribe penance or absolution
• German: eine Buße auferlegen — prescribe penance or absolution