Crossword-Solution: SHRIVED 7 letters, 2 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 14

The Prior, bearing with him the Body of the Lord, made haste to the hovel where he lay, and shrived him though he scarce could hear his muttered words; but lo! when he would place the Host he could not, for a gold piece lay on the man’s tongue.

But, Your Worship, are these naughty fellows shrived?" "Nay," said the Sheriff, laughing, "never a whit; but thou mayst turn thy hand to that also if thou art so minded.

Meantime the town of Blois was in great turmoil--the cattle lowing in the streets, the churches full to the doors of men-at-arms, waiting their turn to be shrived, for the Maid had ordained that all who followed her must go clean of sin.

And indeed we have been the most penitent of all concerned; we have shrived ourselves by open confession and tears.

Marlborough had not, when Popery was in the ascendant, crossed himself, shrived himself, done penance, taken the communion in one kind, and, as soon as a turn of fortune came, apostatized back again, and proclaimed to all the world that, when he knelt at the confessional and received the host, he was merely laughing at the King and the priests.