shriven

[ shriv-uhn ]

verb

1. a past participle of shrive.

Other Words From

• un·shriven adjective

Example Sentences

And albeit first the said Count demanded with cries to be shriven; yet did they not grant him a friar or a priest to confess him.

From Project Gutenberg

He added in a lower tone, "you've purged me of my sin, my dear—I feel already shriven."

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He would behave this way, Mr. Carvel, if he were being shriven by the Newgate ordinary before a last carting to Tyburn.

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And of every one of these sins they must be shriven by their priests, and pay a great sum of silver for their penance.

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Shriven he arose, to do what remained in the west before he could be crowned in Rouen, and crowned in Westminster.

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