shrift的词源

英文词源

shrift: shrift: see shrive
shrift (n.): Old English scrift "confession to priest, followed by penance and absolution," verbal noun from scrifan "to impose penance," from an early Germanic borrowing of Latin scribere "to write" (see script (n.)) that produced nouns for "penance, confession" in Old English and Scandinavian (such as Old Norse skrjpt "penance, confession"), but elsewhere in Germanic is used in senses "writing, scripture, alphabet letter;" see shrive. Short shrift originally was the brief time for a condemned criminal to confess before execution (1590s); figurative extension to "little or no consideration" is first attested 1814.

来自 shrive 的名词形式，常见于习语 short shrift,短暂的忏悔，引申比喻义不理会，忽视，轻视等。词性演变比较 scribe,script.

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