• (British, GA) IPA: /ʃɹɪft/

shrift

1. The act#Noun|act of going to or hearing a religious confession.
   • 1820, John Keats, “Isabella; or, The Pot of Basil. A Story from Boccaccio.”, in Lamia, Isabella, the Eve of St. Agnes, and Other Poems, London: Printed [by Thomas Davison] for Taylor and Hessey, […], OCLC 927360557 ↗, stanza LIX, page 78 ↗:

     For seldom did she go to chapel-shrift, / And seldom felt she any hunger-pain; [...]

2. Confession to a priest.
3. (obsolete) Forgiveness given by a priest after confession; remission.
   • circa 1594 CE: William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet

     [Friar:] Be plain, good son, and homely in thy drift. / Riddling confession finds but riddling shrift.

• shrive

• German: Beichte, Beichtablegung, Beichtgang
• Russian: испове́дание

• German: Beichte
• Russian: и́споведь

• German: Sündenerlass, Sündenvergebung, Absolution
• Russian: отпуще́ние грех