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- From: idx009@cck.coventry.ac.uk (the Crisco Kid)
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- Subject: Re: floating and sinking
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- Date: 9 Nov 92 17:52:37 GMT
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- In article <BxGMrt.9uL@cck.coventry.ac.uk> idx009@cck.coventry.ac.uk (the Crisco Kid) writes:
- >I think people probably have received long shrift, but that it's not
- >been worth noting. "Shrift" is the noun form of the verb "to shrive",
- >or "to absolve from one's sins"; one who receives "short shrift" is
- >thus given only a brief period before death (and, I suspect, a violent
- >death) before being sent to meet her or his Maker.
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- Sorry to folloup to my own followup, but I missed a small element in the
- chain of reasoning: it was considered necessary before death to make a
- final confession of one's sins, and to be absolved (shriven) of them, thus
- dying in a state of grace, if one were to have a hope of gaining Heaven.
- Dying unshriven, without the last sacraments, was greatly feared.
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- Kay
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