Definition of "shrives" []

• Third-person singular simple present indicative form of shrive. (verb)

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• "So, I mean, we're not going to have hostages on there delivering long shrives as they're being coached by their captors."
• "The priest hath his foe who comes and shrives [6] us,"
• "The innocence that shrives me; stoop to the stream"