shrift

🇺🇸 /ʃrɪft/ 🇬🇧 /ʃrɪft/
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noun
R

A quick confession or forgiveness given to someone, especially when they are dying.

The dying man asked for a priest to give him last rites and shrive him.

死にゆく男は、神父に最後の告解をしてもらい、赦しを求めた。

R

Little attention or consideration given to someone's case or opinion.

She didn't give his argument much shrift, dismissing it as nonsense.

彼女は彼の主張にあまり配慮せず、それを無意味なものとして退けた。

translation

n. 早い告白, 注意しない

語形変化

Plural shrifts