Shrive is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 12 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 12 points.
You can make 97 anagrams from letters in shrive (ehirsv).
before 900; Middle English shriven, schrifen, Old English scrīfan to prescribe, cognate with German schreiben to write ≪ Latin scrībere; see scribe1
shrive me for obeying the Bishop, and bringing doom upon the heretics!
Confess, dear sinner; I will shrive you and grant absolution for the past, whatever it may be.
They went to shrive the dying, bury the dead, and console the bereaved.
A priest, a priest, sayes Aldingàr, Me for to houzle and shrive.
The Prince goes to shrive himself, and right wisely he judges.
Yet if Father Bastian refused to shrive me, what should come of me?
This is naughty, I know, but as I have gone into the confessional, I will make a clean "shrive" of it.
Did ever “Father Confessor” have so sweet and so wilful a sinner to shrive!
Who will shrive these poor fellows, then, if you have turned your back upon them?
For they shrive them and housel them evermore once or twice in the week.
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