shrift /shrift/

1. Orig a prescribed penance
2. Absolution
3. Confession
4. A confessional (Shakespeare)

short shrift noun

1. A short time for confession before execution
2. Summary treatment of a person or a matter

• deuce-ace
• deuce-aces
• deuce court
• deuced
• deucedly
• deuces
• deuch-an-doris
• deuddarn
• deuddarns
• deus
• Deus avertat
• Deus det
• deus ex machina
• Deus vobiscum
• Deus vult
• Deut.
• deuter-
• deuteragonist
• deuteragonists
• deuteranope
• deuteranopes
• dissension
• dissensions
• dissensus
• dissensuses