Usage History of 'shrift'

The following chart shows how frequently 'shrift' appeared in printed materials over time. For example, the word 'shrift' occurred 2 times in books in 1625 and 12,071 times in 2008. From 1625 to 2008, the word 'shrift' was used a total of 283,492 times in books scanned by Google. See Reference: Google Ngram project.

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