Confession, old style

Usage examples of shrift.

She said no word thereon: as for her shrift, No Chrisom child could show a chart of thoughts More spotless than were hers.

The short shrift that Lawless had given Fleech was a most discouraging precedent for Dave to consider.

Fitzgerald was concerned that Macgregor was giving short shrift to logistics and noted that an artillery unit had run out of gas in the 1991 Gulf War.

For example, as a particularly fine specimen of a djinni, I treat other djinn and anything above my rank with a certain degree of courtesy, but give foliots and imps short shrift.

The second condition is, that thy shrift be lawful, that is to say, that thou that shrivest thee, and eke the priest that heareth thy confession, be verily in the faith of Holy Church, and that a man be not despaired of the mercy of Jesus Christ, as Cain and Judas were.

Indeed, on most TV documentaries and talk shows, sceptics get short shrift and almost no air time.

With government funds constantly drained for new ways to ease housing and food shortages, to provide entertainment for the restriction-ridden masses, Spacedep, Alreldep and Codep got short shrift despite their logical pleas that, if more money were allocated for shipbuilding, for explorations, for immigration, the strain on Terran resources would naturally be eased.

I had it vaguely in mind to head for the Midlands, since I had given this noble if challenging region of the country pretty short shrift on my previous foragings, but as I was standing there a faded red double-decker bus announcing WIGAN in its little destination window pulled up beside me and the matter was out of my hands.

As a Tuskugggun who believed, quite heretically, that her gender should be the equal of males, she held no especial feeling for the male members of her family who, because of her views, were prone to give her even shorter shrift than her sister or her mother.

As the duly appointed Mayor, it was his job to cast his eye over any strangers to Northfork, apprise them of the town laws, see that they knew troublemakers got short shrift.

The pilchard fishermen and lobster-pot men with whom he had been having furtive dealings and on whom he had been lavishing British gold - French gold, to be exact - would meet with short shrift if their activities became known to the French authorities.

But he gave them all short shrift and in a little while they left him alone and he went on with his farming and the house stayed lonely.

The years separating Rand and Mat from Ewin, only fourteen, were usually more than enough for them to give short shrift to anything he had to say.

His theory leaned very heavily on kinetic energy, and gave short shrift -- no shrift, actually -- to repair costs.

In the red hot state our public mind now is in there will be a short shrift for spies.