shrift

noun3

1. •
   The act of going to or hearing a religious confession.

   • For seldom did she go to chapel-shrift, / And seldom felt she any hunger-pain; [...] — 1820
2. •
   Confession to a priest.
3. •
   (no longer used) Forgiveness given by a priest after confession; remission.

   • [Friar:] Be plain, good son, and homely in thy drift. / Riddling confession finds but riddling shrift. — 1591