| 单词 | ear-shrift |
| 释义 | > as lemmasear-shrift ear-shrift n. now historical auricular confession. ΘΚΠ society > faith > worship > sacrament > confession > [noun] > auricular shrift of mouthc1175 ear-shrift1528 ear-confession1531 auricular confession?1542 1528 W. Tyndale Obed. Christen Man f. xcviiiv Yf he repente and knowleage his trespase, God promyseth him forgevenesse with oute eare shrifte. 1554 T. Sampson in J. Strype Eccl. Memorials (1721) III. App. xviii. 50 But this is so far from their ear-shrift. 1604 G. Babington Comfortable Notes: Levit. xiii. 108 Our popish Teachers would gather an argument for their auricular confession, and eare shrift. 2011 S. Beckwith Shakespeare & Gram. of Forgiveness iii. v. 111 The reforms worked against both the notion of a secret ear-shrift to a priest and the idea that a priest could, for example, celebrate a mass on his own. < as lemmas |
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