SHROVE
- free from guilt
- to celebrate Shrovetide [v SHROVED, SHROVING, SHROVES]
- to impose penance on (a sinner)
- to grant absolution to (a penitent)
- confess one's sins especially to a priest
- SHRIVE, to hear the confession of and grant absolution to [v]
- to hear the confession of (a person)
- to administer the sacrament of reconciliation to