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shrieve
/ʃɹiːv/
verb 2noun 1
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4ADJ.
penitent
VERB + SHRIEVE
called
SHRIEVE + NOUN
he'll, northamptonshire, prisoner, soul
PREP.
with
Definitions
noun
1
Obsolete form of sheriff.
Please it your Majesty, here is the shrieve of Northamptonshire, with certain persons that of late committed a riot, and have appealed to your Majesty beseeching your Highness for special cause to hear them.
I know him: he was a botcher's 'prentice in Paris, from whence he was whipped for getting the shrieve's fool with child: a dumb innocent that could not say him nay.
verb
1
Obsolete form of shrive.
[…]he ordered [father Jerome] to be called and shrieve the prisoner.
He'll shrieve my soul, he'll wash away The Albatross's blood.
2
To question.
But afterwards she gan him soft to shrieve, And wooe with fair intreatie, to disclose Which of the nymphes his heart so sore did mieve:
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Please it your Majesty, here is the shrieve of Northamptonshire, with certain persons that of late committed a riot, and have appealed to your Majesty beseeching your Highness for special cause to hea
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I know him: he was a botcher's 'prentice in Paris, from whence he was whipped for getting the shrieve's fool with child: a dumb innocent that could not say him nay.
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[…]he ordered [father Jerome] to be called and shrieve the prisoner.
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He'll shrieve my soul, he'll wash away The Albatross's blood.
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The jealous churl hath deeply swore, That, if again he venture o’er, He shall shrieve penitent no more.
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