shrieves
shrieves is the plural of shrieve.
shrieves is the third-person singular simple present indicative of shrieve.
Meaning of shrieve
Verb
shrieve (third-person singular simple present shrieves, present participle shrieving, simple past shrieved, past participle shrieved or shriven)
- To question.
- But afterwards she gan him soft to shrieve,
And wooe with fair intreatie, to disclose
Which of the nymphes his heart so sore did mieve:1596, Edmund Spenser, “The Faerie Queene”, in Henry John Todd, editor, The Works of Edmund Spenser, published 1869, page 243
- But afterwards she gan him soft to shrieve,
Questions about shrieves
- What is shrieves the plural of?
- Shrieves is the plural of shrieve.
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