(v. t.) To hear or receive the confession of; to administer confession and absolution to; -- said of a priest as the agent.
(v. t.) To confess, and receive absolution; -- used reflexively.
(v. i.) To receive confessions, as a priest; to administer confession and absolution.
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Shriver
Definition:
(n.) One who shrives; a confessor.
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(1) It is no accident, therefore, that his granddaughter Eunice Kennedy Shriver founded the Special Olympics.
(2) And in our audiobook review, we examine appetite with Lionel Shriver's novel Big Brother, and Jay Rayner's exploration of the food industry, A Greedy Man in a Hungry World.
(3) This is our world now, and it’s going to energise us.” If there’s one writer in tune with the zeitgeist, it’s Lionel Shriver whose high-school massacre novel, We Need to Talk About Kevin, nailed much of contemporary America.
(4) One of her favourite "ups" was shortly after she had been studying the book We Need To Talk About Kevin by Lionel Shriver with some prisoners.
(5) (1982) Biochemistry 21, 3022-3028; Tollemar, U., Cunningham, K., and Shriver, J.W.
(6) Then Lionel Shriver's We Need To Talk About Kevin , at £1,400, is more in your price range.
(7) He apologises to Tim Shriver, chairman of the Special Olympics, before the programme is broadcast.
(8) This activating effect of the nucleotides was decreased at 12 degrees C and completely eliminated at 0 degrees C. The results can be explained by assuming that there are two subfragment-1 conformers [Shriver, J. W. & Sykes, B. D. (1981) Biochemistry 20, 2004-2012], and that both the addition of ATP or its analogs, and lowering the temperature, shift the conformational equilibrium in the direction that is more susceptible to thermolysin.
(9) Ty Shipalane equalized in the 75th minute to put on the pressure, then a Brian Shriver match winner came in the 88th to seal it for the Carolina Railhawks - former home of Vancouver coach, Martin Rennie.
(10) Lionel Shriver: Outdoor smoking bans are just spiteful When smoking in enclosed public spaces like pubs and restaurants was banned in the UK in 2007, the prohibition was justified by concern for the health of employees.
(11) This paper reviews case material from 65 patients referred to the Shriver Center for study from January, 1984 to December, 1986.
(12) The Haunting of Sylvia Plath by Jacqueline Rose is published by Virago Lionel Shriver Photograph: Rolph Gobits I read The Bell Jar as an adolescent, and like most teenagers had no problem identifying with a young woman who had everything going for her – looks, talent, opportunity, with her "whole life ahead of her," yadda, yadda, yadda – yet was spiralling into misery.
(13) Lionel Shriver is the author of We Need to Talk about Kevin (Serpent's Tail) Margaret Drabble Photograph: Murdo Macleod The Bell Jar is a novel of reckless vitality, and although it's about death, trauma, suicide and madness, it's as exhilarating as its narrator's first mad dash down the ski slope when she manages triumphantly to break her leg in two places.
(14) The 77-year-old Kennedy's absence from last week's funeral for his sister, Eunice Kennedy Shriver, prompted a flurry of questions about his own health.
(15) The transition observed here appears to be the same transition observed by 31P NMR of bound AMP-PNP (Shriver, J., and Sykes, B. D. (1981) Biochemistry 20, 2004-2012).
(16) Earlier this year she hosted a dinner for Mugabe and Tim Shriver, the head of the Special Olympics and a nephew of John and Robert Kennedy.
(17) Volunteers – Keith Allen and Lionel Shriver among them – will neck pills and undergo tests in the name of proper real science.
(18) Henning Mankell, Lionel Shriver, Hanif Kureishi and the antipodean writers CK Stead, Thomas Keneally and Anna Funder are other globally renowned signatories.
(19) Books were written, movies were made, none of which Klebold saw, but she heard about them – the Gus Van Sant film Elephant ; Lionel Shriver’s novel We Need To Talk About Kevin – and they made her shudder.
(20) On the page, the play reminded me of Alan Bennett's 'The History Boys' and also of Lionel Shriver's novel 'We Need to Talk about Kevin' but its tense rhythms are all its own.