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Shrieve vs Shrieved - What's the difference?

shrieve | shrieved |

As verbs the difference between shrieve and shrieved

is that shrieve is while shrieved is (shrieve).

As a noun shrieve

is .

shrieve

English

Etymology 1

See sheriff.

Noun

(en noun)
  • * 1591 , unknown author, :
    • Please it your Majesty, here is the shrieve of Northamptonshire, with certain persons that of late committed a riot, and have appealed to your Majesty beseeching your Highness for special cause to hear them.
  • * 1623 , :
    • I know him: he was a botcher's 'prentice in Paris, from whence he was whipped for getting the shrieve' s fool with child: a dumb innocent that could not say him nay.
    Usage notes
    * Also appears capitalised, particularly when used as a title.
    Related terms
    * shrieval * shrievalty

    Etymology 2

    See shrive.

    Verb

  • * 1798 , :
    • He'll shrieve my soul, he'll wash away
    The Albatross's blood.
  • * 1808 , :
    • The jealous churl hath deeply swore,
    That, if again he venture o’er,
    He shall shrieve penitent no more.
  • (obsolete) To question.
  • * 1596 , '', 1869, Henry John Todd (editor), ''The Works of Edmund Spenser , page 243,
    • But afterwards she gan him soft to shrieve ,
    And wooe with fair intreatie, to disclose
    Which of the nymphes his heart so sore did mieve:

    shrieved

    English

    Verb

    (head)
  • (shrieve)

    • Anagrams

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    shrieve

    English

    Etymology 1

    See sheriff.

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • * 1591 , unknown author, :
    • Please it your Majesty, here is the shrieve of Northamptonshire, with certain persons that of late committed a riot, and have appealed to your Majesty beseeching your Highness for special cause to hear them.
  • * 1623 , :
    • I know him: he was a botcher's 'prentice in Paris, from whence he was whipped for getting the shrieve' s fool with child: a dumb innocent that could not say him nay.
    Usage notes
    * Also appears capitalised, particularly when used as a title.
    Related terms
    * shrieval * shrievalty

    Etymology 2

    See shrive.

    Verb

  • * 1798 , :
    • He'll shrieve my soul, he'll wash away
    The Albatross's blood.
  • * 1808 , :
    • The jealous churl hath deeply swore,
    That, if again he venture o’er,
    He shall shrieve penitent no more.
  • (obsolete) To question.
  • * 1596 , '', 1869, Henry John Todd (editor), ''The Works of Edmund Spenser , page 243,
    • But afterwards she gan him soft to shrieve ,
    And wooe with fair intreatie, to disclose
    Which of the nymphes his heart so sore did mieve: