Crossword clues for shrift
shrift
- With "short," a curt rejection
- Unsympathetic rejection (with "short")
- Short(little attention)
- Short -- (little attention)
- Short __: little or no consideration
- Short ___ (unsympathetic rejection)
- Make shortof
- Give short ___
- Confession, old style
- Absolution and penance (now usually short!)
- Curt treatment of Republican wearing mini dress
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Shrift \Shrift\, n. [OE. shrift, schrift, AS. scrift, fr. scr[=i]fan to shrive. See Shrive.]
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The act of shriving.
In shrift and preaching is my diligence.
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Confession made to a priest, and the absolution consequent upon it.
--Chaucer.Have you got leave to go to shrift to-day?
--Shak.Therefore, my lord, address you to your shrift, And be yourself; for you must die this instant.
--Rowe.Shrift father, a priest to whom confession is made.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Old English scrift "confession to priest, followed by penance and absolution," verbal noun from scrifan "to impose penance," from an early Germanic borrowing of Latin scribere "to write" (see script (n.)) that produced nouns for "penance, confession" in Old English and Scandinavian (such as Old Norse skrjpt "penance, confession"), but elsewhere in Germanic is used in senses "writing, scripture, alphabet letter;" see shrive. Short shrift originally was the brief time for a condemned criminal to confess before execution (1590s); figurative extension to "little or no consideration" is first attested 1814.
Wiktionary
n. 1 The act of going to or hearing a religious confession. 2 confession to a priest. 3 (context obsolete English) forgiveness given by a priest after confession; remission.
WordNet
n. the act of being shriven
Wikipedia
Shrift may refer to:
- Confession
- Absolution
- Shrift (band), a band with vocalist Nina Miranda
Shrift was a collaboration between former Smoke City vocalist Nina Miranda and producer Dennis Wheatley. Their debut release, Lost In A Moment, brought together acoustic and electronic soundscapes with Miranda's vocals, drawing comparisons with Portishead. "It's all swirling atmosphere, with fingerpicked guitars, glimmering string sections, Brazilian and synthetic percussion and gusty echoes around Ms. Miranda's limpid voice," wrote Jon Pareles in The New York Times.
Wheatley is best known for his work with the British electronic band Atlas.
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.