shrift

Definitions  ·  Examples  ·  Pronunciations  ·  Etymologies  ·  Related  ·  Statistics  ·  Comments  · 
“
You have no faith in such shrift, and but little

View all »
Definitions (12)

Toggle American Heritage definitions American Heritage Dictionary (3)

  1. noun Archaic The act of shriving.
  2. noun Archaic Confession to a priest.
  3. noun Archaic Absolution given by a priest. See Note at short shrift.

Toggle Century definitions Century Dictionary (7)

Toggle GNU Webster definitions GNU Webster's 1913 (1)

Toggle WordNet definitions WordNet (1)

Toggle elsewhere links Elsewhere on the web

View all »
Examples (50)

  • The Post gave Bush's text itself short-shrift, directly quoting it in only five of 19 paragraphs, two of the citations being sentence fragments, the other three brief quotations. —  CAMERA Snapshots
  • But in the latest upbeat stories, what gets short-shrift is how high-tech strategies are making Iraq a test tube for modern repression. —  Consortiumnews.com
  • Sadly, in the face of record-breaking federal spending, one uncommonly good spending idea has gotten short shrift: Use federal budget dollars to pay for more cops on high-crime city streets. —  HLS News
  • The contributions of wabs to our national tapestry are traditionally neglected outside of conquistadors and Manifest Destiny for the same reason other subaltern histories get short shrift: Any examination forces —  Broward-Palm Beach New Times | Complete Issue
  • While the notion sometimes gets short shrift, Nicholson believes that there is undoubtedly a Canadian aesthetic, which she characterizes as clean, rooted in modernism, and —  Torontoist
More examples »
 

Tags

shrift hasn't been tagged yet.

Sign up or sign in to add tags.

Stats

This word has been looked up 110 times.

stop updating
On Twitter

Photos from

flickr images

Etymologies (3)

Toggle American Heritage etymologies American Heritage Dictionary (1)

  1. Middle English, from Old English scrift, from Latin scrīptum, something written, from neuter past participle of scrībere, to write; see shrive.

Toggle Century etymologies Century Dictionary (2)

  1. from Middle English shrift, shryft, schrift, schryft, from Anglo-Saxon scrift, confession or absolution (=Icelandic skript =Swedish skrift =Danish skrifte. confession, absolution; cf. Old High German scrift, Middle High German G. schrift, a writing: see script), from scrīfan, shrive: see shrive.
  2. =Icelandic skripta =Swedish skrifta =Danish skrifte, give shrift, shrive; from the noun.
 

Pronunciations
Record your own »
/ʃrɪft/
by American Heritage

Charts
frequency chart

Bubble size: how much this word was used in a year

Bubble height: used more or less than expected, vs. all uses evenly distributed

You can expect to see this word a few times a year.

Recently looked up

quis · Consciously · slalom · hepatica · valuation

Recent Favorites

pygopagus · sanglant · Astacus · sweetbread · qualms

Recent Pronunciations

Der dicke Dachdecker deckte dir dein Dach, drum dank dem dicken Dachdecker, dass der dicke Dachdecker dir dein Dach deckte. · weitläufig · und wenn sie nicht gestorben sind, so leben sie noch heute · redescheu · selbstverständlich